Toknowwherewearegoing,wemustalsoknowwherewecamefrom.
ThisbookgivesanaccountofHongKong’smedicalandhealthdevelopmentfromtheSecondWorldWartothepresentday,investigateshowmedicalandhealthservicesgrewandadaptedasHongKong’spoliticalandthesocio-economiclandscape—andtheworldbeyondit—changed,andcontinuedchanging.Theauthorisaclinician-scientistratherthanasocialscientist,herwritingisthereforebasedonherfirst-handknowledgeofthechangesintheHongKongmedicalandhealthcaresceneduringtheperiod1942–2015,andthebookhasalsobeenenrichedbyhermeticulousresearchviathearchivesofavailablegovernmentpublications,otherliterature,andmediareports.
ThisbookisasequeltoAMedicalHistoryofHongKong:1842–1941.
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