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Book SynopsisHealth patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. This volume provides an approach to the history of health in Southeast Asia.
Trade ReviewThe essays in this volume . . . deserve a wide readership, not only by those interested in the history of medicine but by all who are interested in the history of Southeast Asia.
* East Asian Science, Technology and Society *
[T]his volume is a remarkable addition to scholarship. . . . Highly recommended.
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Table of ContentsIntroduction / Sunil Amrith and Tim Harper
Part I. The Long Duree
1. Knowledge Transition and the Transformation of Medicine in Early Modern Siam / Komatra Chuengsatiansup & Nopphanat Anuphongphat
Part II. Health and Crisis
2. Pilgrim Ships and the Frontiers of Contagion: Quarantine Regimes from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo
3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 / Kirsty Walker
4. Disaster Medicine in Southeast Asia / Greg Bankoff
Part III. Uneven Transitions
5. The Demographic History of Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century / Peter Boomgaard
6. "Rural" Health in Modern Southeast Asia / Atsuko Naoko
7. Population Ageing and the Family: The Southeast Asian Context / Theresa W. Devasahayam
8. Epidemic Disease in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia / Mary Wilson
Part IV. The Politics of Health
9. The Internationalization of Health in Southeast Asia / Sunil Amrith
10. Modernising yet Marginal: Hospitals and Asylums in Southeast Asia in the 20th Century / Loh Kah Seng
11. Healing the Nation: Politics, Medicine and Analogies of Health in Southeast Asia / Rachel Leow
12. Health or Tobacco: Competing Perspectives in Modern Southeast Asia / Loh Wei Leng
13. The Role of Non-governmental Organizations in the Field of Health in Modern Southeast Asia: the Philippine Experience / Teresa S Encarnacion Tadem
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