Risse Guenter B
University of California, San Francisco, USA.
Bull Hist Med. 2011 Fall;85(3):413-47. doi: 10.1353/bhm.2011.0066.
Since hospitals are often at the center of health care services, their foundation and evolution provides valuable insights into local political, economic, and cultural contexts. Based on Western and Chinese sources, this essay employs a transnational approach to explain the establishment of the Tung Wah or Oriental Dispensary in San Francisco. This article describes the institution's aims, financing, and combined operation of Western and Chinese medical staffs in an environment of racial discrimination and political power struggles, as well as deep social and cultural divisions during the early twentieth-century plague epidemic.
由于医院常常处于医疗服务的核心位置，其创立与发展能为当地政治、经济和文化背景提供宝贵洞见。基于西方和中国的资料来源，本文采用跨国视角来阐释旧金山东华医院或东方药房的建立。本文描述了该机构在种族歧视、政治权力斗争以及二十世纪初鼠疫流行期间深刻的社会文化分歧环境下的目标、资金筹集情况，以及中西医人员的联合运作。
