博客來The Plague That Changed Medicine: Wu Lien-teh.
In 1910, a terrifying pneumonic plague swept across Manchuria, killing thousands in weeks and paralyzing a collapsing empire. Desperate, the Qing Imperial Court appointed a young, foreign-trained doctor to stop it.
That doctor was Wu Lien-teh, a Penang-born, Cambridge-educated physician. At just 31, he defied the world’s leading medical authorities, insisting the plague was airborne. He implemented radical measures-from mass cremation to the invention of the first widely adopted cloth-and-gauze surgical mask-that stopped the epidemic dead.
More than just a medical hero, Wu Lien-teh became the architect of modern China’s public health system, fighting for scientific sovereignty against colonial powers and founding institutions that saved millions of lives.
This definitive biography is the extraordinary story of a man who confronted fear, challenged tradition, and redefined the global defense against respiratory pandemics, laying the groundwork for our world today. Approx.180 pages, 34800 word count
