Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery

Introduction: China and the Globalization of Biomedicine - David LuesinkPART 1. HYGIENE AND DISEASE CONSTRUCTION IN LATE QING CHINAReflections on the Modernity of Sanitation Construction in the Late Qing Dynasty - Yu XinzhongDiscovering Diseases: Research on the Globalization of Medical Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century China - Gao XiPART 2. THE INDIGENIZATION OF BIOMEDICINE IN REPUBLICAN CHINAGlobalizing Biomedicine through Sino-Japanese Networks: The Case of National Medical College, Beijing, 1912-1937 - Daniel AsenGlobalizing Biomedicine through Sino-Japanese Networks: The Case of National Medical College, Beijing, 1912-1937 - David LuesinkAn Abortive Amalgamation: Multiple Western-Style Doctors in Republican China, 1927-1937 - Shi YanShanghai's Female Doctors: A Discussion of the Gendered Politics of Modern Medical Professionalization - He XiaolianPART 3. THE SPREAD OF BIOMEDICINE TO SOUTHWEST CHINA, 1937-1945A Social History of Wartime Nursing Training in Hunan, 1937-1945 - Li ShenglanFrontiers of Immunology: Medical Migrations to Yunnan, Vaccine Research and Public Health During the War with Japan, 1937-1945 - Mary Augusta BrazeltonServing the People: Chen Zhiqian and the Sichuan Provincial Health Administration, 1939-1949 - Nicole BarnesAfterword: Western Medicine and Global Health - William H. SchneiderList of Chinese and Japanese Names and TermsNotes on Contributors