Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies

ISBN-13: 9781108424578 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 302 str.

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Opis

This examination of the formation of the Indonesian medical profession reveals the relationship between medicine and decolonisation, and its importance to understanding Asian history.

Recenzje

'This work is an impressive account of the past century of Indonesian history through the lens of medicine and its practitioners. This is the work of a master of the topic, and reflects his ability to apply the history of medicine to larger social and political developments in a nation, making it an important contribution in new approaches to the past in the region.' Timothy P. Barnard, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

Spis treści

Introduction: colonial dreams, national awakenings, and cosmopolitan aspirations; 1. Abdul Rivai: medicine and the enticement of modernity; 2. The enchantment of cosmopolitan science: student life at the Dutch East Indies medical colleges; 3. The Indies youth movements: progress, westernisation, and cultural pride; 4. Professional aspirations and colonial ambivalence: the Association of Indies Physicians; 5. The insults of colonial psychiatry and the psychological damage of colonialism; 6. The Great Depression: Rockefeller initiatives and medical nationalism; 7. Indonesian medicine in the Greater East-Asia co-prosperity sphere; 8. Medical heroism and the Indonesian revolution; 9. Medicine in independent Indonesia: national physicians and international health; Conclusion: the rise and fall of the national physician; Bibliography; Index.