Public Health and National Reconstruction in Post-War Asia: International Influences, Local Transformations

ISBN-13: 9780415719056 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 204 str.

Liping Bu; Ka-Che Yip

Opis

This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countries in the period following the Second World War. It examines how public health concepts, policies, institutions and practices were improved, shows how international health standards were implemented, sometimes through the direct intervention of transnational organisations, and explores how indigenous traditions and local social and cultural concerns affected developments, with, in some cases, the construction of public health systems forming an important part of nation-building in post-war and post-independence countries. Throughout, the book relates developments in public health systems to people's health, demographic changes, and economic and social reconstruction projects.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  2.Transition to Decolonization: the Search for a Health Policy in Postwar Hong Kong, 1949-1990  3. Diseases, Peasants and State-Building in China in the 1950s  4. People’s Health and Socialist Reconstruction: Anti-Malaria Campaigns in China, 1950-1980  5. Two Different Paths of Healthcare System: North and South Koreas After Independence, 1945-1960  6. Indonesianisation of Social Medicine in the 1950s  7. Technologies of Desire and Moral Discourse of Health Politics in Thailand, 1950-2010  8. Impact of Government-Foundation Cooperation: Healthcare System Development in Postwar Japan  9. Medicine, Philanthropy and Nationhood: Tensions of Different Visions in India  10. Introducing North American Standards to South Asia: The Creation of a Modern Nursing Program in Sri Lanka

O autorze

Liping Bu is a Professor in the Department of History at Alma College, Michigan, USA Ka-che Yip is a Professor Emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Maryland Baltimore County, USA