Histories of health in Southeast Asia : perspectives on the long twentieth century / edited by Tim Harper and Sunil S. Amrith.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harper, Tim, editor.

Amrith, Sunil, 1979- editor.

Series:

Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--History--Southeast Asia.

Medicine.

Public health--Southeast Asia--History.

Public health.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with China and India. In this volume leading scholars provide a new approach to the history of health in Southeast Asia. Framed by a series of synoptic pieces on the ""Landscapes of Health"" in Southeast Asia in 1914, 1950, and 2014 the essays interweave local, national, and regional perspectives. They

Contents:

Krom Luang Wongsa and the house of Snidvongs : knowledge transition and the transformation of medicine in early modern Siam / Nopphanat Anuphongphat and Komatra Chuengsatiansup

A historical overview of traditional medicine in Cambodia / Sokhieng Au

Pilgrim ships and the frontiers of contagion : quarantine regimes from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo

The influenza pandemic of 1918 in Southeast Asia / Kirsty Walker

Disaster medicine in Southeast Asia / Greg Bankoff

The demographic history of Southeast Asia in the twentieth century / Peter Boomgaard

"Rural" health in modern Southeast Asia / Atsuko Naono

The impact of environmental changes on forest peoples of Southeast Asia in the twentieth century / Alberto G. Gomes

Population aging and the family : the Southeast Asian context / Theresa W. Devasahayam

Epidemic disease in modern and contemporary Southeast Asia / Mary Wilson

The eradication of smallpox in Indonesia / Vivek Neelakantan

The internationalization of health in Southeast Asia / Sunil S. Amrith

Modernizing yet marginal : hospitals and asylums in Southeast Asia in the twentieth century / Loh Kah Seng

Healing the nation : politics, medicine, and analogies of health in Southeast Asia / Rachel Leow

Health or tobacco : competing perspectives in modern Southeast Asia / Loh Wei Leng

The role of non-governmental organizations in the field of health in modern Southeast Asia : the Philippine experience / Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem.

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-253-01495-6

OCLC:

890531197