This is probably the first book dedicated to the life and times of the doctors who have shaped the medical development of Hong Kong. It is a fascinating story of how the pioneers transformed a city with primitive medical services into what it is today—a city with advanced medical facilities as in any major Western city. —Dr. Mak Wai-ping Chairman (Executive Committee) and Board of Directors Hong Kong Museum of Medical Science Society The development of Western medicine in Hong Kong to its current sophisticated state over more than 150 years is a fascinating story. And this book tells the above history from a special perspective—the personalities responsible for this remarkable achievement. These individuals, spanning over a period of over 150 years, comprised doctors in government public medical and health services who advocated new initiatives and laid the infrastructure; those who established health policies, and moved the health system forward; the medical educators who trained the medical workforce and generated new medical knowledge through their research; practising doctors, who not only delivered medical care but also offered their free services in education and social welfare; and pioneer female doctors before and after World War II who struggled their ways to the medical world and shined on their own specialties. The story of each doctor is narrated in the context of the complex political, social, and economic backdrop of his/her time. While these doctors from diverse backgrounds lived in different eras and engaged in different branches of medicine, they were strikingly similar in several aspects: their dedication to serving the community and their tireless labor to achieve their aim at times under adverse conditions, leaving their mark in the history of medicine in Hong Kong.

• 目錄
• Foreword
• Preface
• Acknowledgements
• Abbreviations
• Overview
• Before the Second World War (1842–1941)
  • 1 The Medical Missionaries: Introducing Western Medicine to Hong Kong
  • 2 The Colonial Surgeon and Government Medical Officers: Establishing Sanitary, Medical, and Health Services in Hong Kong
  • 3 Physicians Who Propagated Western Medicine: Founding the Alice Memorial Hospital and Hong Kong College of Medicine
  • 4 The Early University Medical Educators: Laying the Foundation of the Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong
  • 5 Private Practitioners with Public Interests: Improving Medical Care and Education
  • 6 The Pioneer Women Doctors: Changing the Paradigm of Women’s Medicine in Hong Kong
• During the Second World War (1941–1945)
  • 7 The Wartime Heroes: Making a Difficult Choice in the Face of Adversity
• After the Second World War (1945–2015)
  • 8 Government Public Health Experts: Modernizing the Healthcare System
  • 9 Government Specialists: Developing New Branches of Medicine
  • 10 Postwar University Educators: Producing Doctors and Training Specialists
  • 11 Private Practitioners: Engaging in Politics to Improve Healthcare
  • 12 The First Two Female Professors: Trailblazing Women Doctors in Hong Kong
  • 13 The Last Medical Missionaries: Spreading the Gospel in Action in Hong Kong
• Conclusion
• Appendix
• Notes
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Index