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Public health in Asia and the Pacific : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson.
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- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 11.
- Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 11
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Public health--Asia.
- Public health.
- Public health--Islands of the Pacific.
- Public Health.
- Asia.
- Australia.
- Pacific Islands.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Developing Countries.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Preventive Medicine.
- Public Health--history.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Public Health.
- Asia.
- Australia.
- Pacific Islands.
- Cultural Characteristics.
- Developing Countries.
- History, Modern 1601-.
- Preventive Medicine.
- Public Health--history.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
- Contents:
- Public health in Asia and the Pacific : an introduction / Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson
- Invisible borders : Hong Kong, China and the imperatives of public health / Kerrie L. MacPherson
- History of public health in modern Japan : the road to becoming the healthiest nation in the world / Masahira Anesaki
- A history of public health in Korea / In-Sok Yeo
- History of public health in modern India : 1857-2005 / Radhika Ramasubban
- Public health in Thailand : changing medical paradigms and disease patterns in political and economic context / Paul T. Cohen
- 'Could confinement be humanised'? : a modern history of leprosy in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais
- Conflict and collaboration in public health : the Rockefeller Foundation and the Dutch colonial government in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull
- The political determinants of public health in Timor-Leste : foreign domination and the path to independence / Sue Ingram
- From colonial economy to social equity : history of public health in Malaysia / Kai Hong Phua and Mary Lai Lin Wong
- From colony to global city : public health strategies and the control of disease in Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Kai Hong Phua, and Kelly Fu
- Public health and the clash of cultures : the Philippine cholera epidemics / Willie T. Ong
- Public health in Australia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Milton J. Lewis
- Papua New Guinea : epidemiological transition, public health and the Pacific / Vicki Luker
- History of public health in Pacific Island countries / Richard Taylor.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Louis A. Duhring Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9780415359627
- 0415359627
- 9780203007563
- 0203007565
- OCLC:
- 123053467
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