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...Derek J. Kramer Abstract This article examines how Anglo‐American evangelicals in colonial Korea employed racialized understandings of the environment to justify a culture of recreation and health. In the metropole and periphery, missionary researchers studying climate, geography, and public health...

... and Environmental Medicine 4 , no. 3 : 557 – 89 . toxic torts environmental pollution public health research science and law Taiwan genba Copyright 2018 Duke University Press 2018 ...

... 2013 ; Kong 2011 ) and gay bathhouses (Dacanay 2011 ). Public health researcher Nikos Dacanay ( 2011 : 99), for instance, describes how gay men in Bangkok spend “considerably more time in the sauna than in any other gay-oriented venue.” Increasingly, just like in the West, the internet has become...

... frustrated.This is not only because of the tidal wave of global banalities that fills the pages of cheap self-health publications; one is also discouraged by the realization that even the more cultural-nationalist positions 9:1 Spring 2001...

... heteronormativity. In contrast, with the social and discursive construction of HIV/AIDS identities in China, public health officials and journalists — ­elites with the power to construct a dominant definition of the disease — ­tend to use lan...

... for Implementing Public Health in Greater Shanghai”) . De – Hua yixue zazhi (German – Chinese Medical Journal) 5 , no. 1 : 1 – 26 . Jammer Max . 1962 . Concepts of Force: A Study in the Foundations of Dynamics . New York : Harper Torchbooks . Jordan J. H. 1936 . “ Report...

... the health sector. Once state subsidized and entirely public, socialist health care for the masses is now dependent increasingly on the economic self- suf ciency of health- care insti- tutions, including public hospitals, and the economic...

... newborns, whether born in their parents’ hometowns or in the cities where they work, are covered by the basic newborn public health care system similarly to their urban counterparts. Parents of newborns are encouraged to take their babies for thorough physical checkups every two to three months up until...

... – 33 . Broadbent Alex . 2013 . Philosophy of Epidemiology . London : Palgrave Macmillan . Brown Phil . 2007 . Toxic Exposures: Contested Illnesses, and the Environmental Health Movement . New York : Columbia University Press . Flam Helena King Debra 2010...

... practices have taken on increasing importance as new vulnerabilities and social struggles emerge in the late-socialist era. Traditional healers are rapidly disappearing while public biomedical health services have not yet fully evolved into a trusted alternative, leaving rural people in a healthcare gap...

... be considered a strategy for protecting political stability and economic growth.40 States’ capacities to deal with public health crises now re ected their overall capacities to govern.41 When SARS struck, there was no institutionalized regional system...

... to the Japanese occupation. The influ- ence of this research-oriented medical school, a.nd the effect of biomedicine generally on China’s health-care system, remained negligible until the sec- ond half of the century.6 Nor did modern medicine...

... : 221 – 26 . Krige John . 2006 . “ Atoms for Peace, Scientific Internationalism, and Scientific Intelligence .” Osiris 21 : 161 – 81 . Kuchinskaya Olga . 2014 . The Politics of Invisibility: Public Knowledge about Radiation Health Effects after Chernobyl . Cambridge, MA : MIT...

... verité materialism uncovers this methodological aporia of partici- pant observation. Around the same time, in the field of public mental health, Watanabe Naoki and his coworkers (pers. comm., 2011) devised a unique method for participatory action/observation, called participatory action research (PAR...

.... On the other hand, people have an acute understanding of health in relation to the environment. Taking anthropology of embodiment as research methodology, this article formulates questions concerning “environmental health” in rural China as follows: how does the discourse of “rural hygiene and environment...

..., including police, neighborhood committees and party organizations, began monitoring the civil population” (Henry 2020 : 50). In Vietnam, too, Hanoi provincial authorities went far beyond national public health guidelines to control the residents with teams composed of “the urban ward head, a local...

... 2013a: 244).9 Brian Tilt s work, for example, draws on ethno- graphic research in an industrial township in rural Sichuan and explores how community members understand . . . linkages between . . . pollution . . . and . . . health and well- being (2013: 283). While Tilt found that expo- sure...

..., ethics is made absolute, and communist values are codified and enforced. Policy, on the other hand, is a complex web of research, writing, and arguing, which reveals the func- tional and administrative dimension of politics, and it is the job...

... of public health (see, for example, Dudley et al. 2012 ; Ehntholt et al. 2018 ; Fazel, Karunakara, and Newnham 2014 ; Kronick, Rousseau, and Cleveland 2011 ; Linton, Griffin, and Shapiro 2017 ; Lorek et al. 2009 ; Mares and Jureidini 2004 ; Shields et al. 2004 ), less empirical research has been...

..., then at Culion, public-health officers from the United States organized the rig- orous segregation of any afflicted local inhabitants. While the criteria for exile at Molokai had initially been clinical, by the end of the century the medical...