Tuberculosis - The Singapore Experience, 1867-2018: Disease, Society and the State

ISBN-13: 9781032084435 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 str.

Li Yang Hsu

Opis

Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Introduction 1 The Pauper Hospital 2 Disease of Town Dwelling Chinese 3 Houses and Races of the Colony 4 Struggle for A Post-war Policy 5 The Tuberculosis Control Unit 6 The Action Programme 7 Laboratory of Citizenship 8 Newborn and Children of the Nation 9 SATA: The Community Against TB Conclusion Bibliography

O autorze

Kah Seng Loh is a historian of Singapore and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (NUS Press 2013). Loh also researches the rich and varied heritage of Singapore – housing, industrial, culinary, and medical.

Li Yang Hsu is a Singaporean infectious diseases physician by training who has spent the past decade caring for patients with and performing research on drug-resistant infections, including tuberculosis. He is currently head of the infectious diseases and Cambodia research programmes at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore.