130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong From the College of Medicine for Chinese to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine /

• Main Author: Ching, Frank (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Singapore : Springer Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Medicine-History.; China-History.; History of Medicine.; History of China.

This book reviews the medical history of Hong Kong, beginning with its birth as a British colony. It introduces the origins of Hong Kong's medical education, which began in 1887 when the London Missionary Society set up the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. When the University of Hong...

Table of Contents:

• Missionaries
• and a Hospital
• The College of Medicine for Chinese
• The Early Years
• The Bubonic Plague
• and a Degree of Recognition
• Metamorphosis
• Brave New World
• War: The University in Suspended Animation
• After the Re-Establishment
• The Hong Kong Operation
• The Department of Medicine Steps Up
• Taking Hong Kong Surgery to the World
• Faculty Evolves Into Regional Medical Education Hub
• Preparing for the Handover.