This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now, in the context of colonial rule, post-colonial development and modern state-building.

1. Introduction 2. Science, Culture, and Disease Control in Colonial Hong Kong 3. Public Health in Prewar Singapore: The Development of Hospital Services and Medical Education 4. Hygiene and Decolonization: The Rockefeller Foundation and Indonesian Nationalism, 1933-1958 5. The Alma-Ata Declaration, Rockefeller Foundation and the Development of Primary Health Care in Sri Lanka: A Model for Health Promotion 6. "Removing the Obstacles to Public Health Work": Rockefeller Initiatives in Public Health in China and Japan and its Effects, 1925-1950 7. From Race Biology to Population Control: The Rockefeller Foundation's "Public Health" Projects in Japan, 1920s-1950s 8. Beijing First Health Station: Innovative Public Health Education and Influence on China's Health Profession 9. Between the State and the Private Sphere: The Chinese State Medicine Movement, 1930-1949 10. From Japanese Colonial Medicine to American-Standard Medicine in Taiwan - A Case Study of the Transition in the Medical Profession and Practices in East Asia 11. In Republican China, Public Health by Whom, for Whom