Fighting for Health

Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia

C. Michele Thompson, Kathryn Sweet, Michitake Aso (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2024
Nus Press (Verlag)
978-981-325-256-1 (ISBN)

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An overlooked history of Southeast Asia’s varied healthcare regimes during the Cold War. The book highlights new perspectives and methods that have evolved from research presented at regional conferences, including the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia series. These insights serve to challenge dominant models of the medical humanities.

An overlooked history of Southeast Asia’s varied healthcare regimes during the Cold War.

For far too long, Southeast Asia has been treated as a static backdrop for the exploits and discoveries of Western biomedical doctors. Yet, Southeast Asians have been vital to the significant developments in the prevention and treatment of diseases that have taken place in the region and beyond. Many of the institutions and people that shaped subsequent responses to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics first began their work in Southeast Asia during the Cold War. The diversity of approaches to health and medicine during that era also reminds us of the possibilities, and limits, of human intervention in the face of political, social, economic, and microbial realities. The people and places of Southeast Asia have provided clinical trials for different health regimes. Fighting for Health highlights new perspectives and methods that have evolved from research presented at regional conferences, including the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) series. These insights serve to challenge dominant models of the medical humanities.

Michele Thompson holds an MA in East Asian History and a PhD in Southeast Asian History. Her research and publications focus on the History of Medicine and the Environment of Southeast Asia. Kathryn Sweet is a social historian of Laos whose research has focused on health, development and cultural issues of the twentieth century. Michitake Aso is a global environmental historian whose research has focused on Vietnamese and French agriculture, medicine, and health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

List of Tables
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Health, Agriculture and Animism in the 'Development' of Portuguese Timor, 1945- 1975
Chapter 2: Tool of Domination and Act of Benevolence: Medicine and Healthcare during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Chapter 3: Health Sector Contestation in Cold War Laos, 1950-1975
Chapter 4: More Eastern than Traditional: The Making of Ðông y in the Republic of Vietnam during the Cold War
Chapter 5: Building a "socialist health system": Soviet assistance in malaria control in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Cold War
Chapter 6: Mobilising Applied Medical Knowledge for Indonesia: Soekarnoist Science and Asian-African Solidarity, 1950s
Chapter 7: The Cholera Pandemic, Chinese Diaspora, and the Cold War Politics in Southeast Asia and China during the 1960s
Chapter 8: Managing Wartime Conditions: South Korean Developmental Ambitions, Public Health, and Emerging Forms of Overseas Medical Outreach, 1964-1973
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.05.2024
Reihe/Serie	History of Medicine in Southeast Asia
Zusatzinfo	12 halftones, 2 maps, 4 tables
Verlagsort	Singapore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	272 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Geschichte / Ethik der Medizin
	Studium ► Querschnittsbereiche ► Prävention / Gesundheitsförderung
ISBN-10	981-325-256-1 / 9813252561
ISBN-13	978-981-325-256-1 / 9789813252561
Zustand	Neuware