TY - BOOK ID - 10140470 TI - Hygienic modernity : meanings of health and disease in treaty-port China. PY - 2004 SN - 0520240014 9780520240018 PB - Berkeley University of California press DB - UniCat KW - Health behavior KW - Public health KW - S21/0500 KW - China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc. KW - China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc KW - History of human medicine KW - History of Asia KW - anno 1800-1999 KW - China UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:10140470 AB - Placing meanings of health and disease at the center of modern Chinese consciousness, Ruth Rogaski reveals how hygiene became a crucial element in the formulation of Chinese modernity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Rogaski focuses on multiple manifestations across time of a single Chinese concept, weisheng-which has been rendered into English as ""hygiene,"" ""sanitary,"" ""health,"" or ""public health""-as it emerged in the complex treaty-port environment of Tianjin. Before the late nineteenth century, weisheng was associated with diverse regimens of diet, meditati ER -