The Spread of Hygiene Concepts and the Making of Public Health Discourse in Modern East Asia
If public health can be defined as “all activities to ensure universal medical use of the people and protect and promote health,” it can be said that public health emerged in the process of developing the concept of hygiene in East Asia. While traditional hygiene emphasized individual curing and lon...
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| Language: | English |
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Korean Society for the History of Medicine
2022-12-01
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| Series: | Uisahak |
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| Online Access: | http://www.medhist.or.kr/upload/pdf/kjmh-31-3-613.pdf |