130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong From the College of Medicine for
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 f
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130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong From the College of Medicine for Chinese to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong
Frank Ching
130 Years of Medicine in Hong Kong From the College of Medicine for Chinese to the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine
Frank Ching Hong Kong Hong Kong
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Acknowledgements
There are a great many people who gave so generously of their time during the period when I was researching and writing this book and I wish to thank them publicly. There are others who prefer to be unidentified and, of course, I honor their wishes but am indebted to them nonetheless. Foremost among those I wish to acknowledge is Professor Gabriel M. Leung, Dean of the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong. This 130-year history of the faculty was his idea and I am honored that he thought I could appropriately implement such an ambitious project in the relatively short time frame of approximately 30 months. His personal knowledge of the subject was formidable, loans from his personal library were highly useful, his countless contacts were invaluable and, needless to say, so was his advice. This book couldn’t have been written without him. But, I hasten to add, I alone am responsible for whatever errors have crept into the manuscript. Not surprisingly, a large number of my interviews were with academics within the faculty, including s
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