Plague, Sars, and the Story of Medicine in Hong Kong

Plague, Sars, and the Story of Medicine in Hong KongThis volume is published to mark the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Hong Kong Museum of Medical Sciences and the centenary of the Old Bacteriological Institute building that houses the museum. Hong Kong has transformed from being one of the unhealthiest places in the world to one with the best health statistics. The story of how Hong Kong met the challenge of containing infectious diseases shows that much can be achieved despite the city's

Flawed statistics can result in misguided decisions

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and official statistics as the basis with which to investigate the tools that officials have used to ‘solve’ the housing crisis—rent control

The research ties on both archival-historical and contemporary ethnographic discourses on swidden farming and agrarian development among the eastern Naga community inhabiting the northeastern borderland state of Nagaland

Distinguished by its use of a single case example across chapters to help clarify how different theories diverge and overlap

Working towards the Führer is a remarkable collection of essays by some of the most prominent historians writing on the history of the Third Reich

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These books provide a state-of-the-art treatment of mathematical theories of vibration

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this collection of essays is indispensable for educators wishing to understand present philosophical debates

Boldly bringing modernism into dialogue with Marxist and queer theory