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Histories of health in Southeast Asia : perspectives on the long twentieth century /

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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Harper, Tim (Editor ), Amrith, Sunil S., 1979- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, ©2014.
Colección:China Medical Board centennial series.
Philanthropic and nonprofit studies.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.