This text examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the 20th century.
This text examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over ...
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...
This book, based on extensive original research, considers the transformation of public health systems in major East, South and Southeast Asian countr...
This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries over the course of the twentieth century until now. It discusses the transfer of scientific knowledge of medicine and public health approaches from Europe and the United States to several Asian countries - Singapore, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Japan, Taiwan, and China - and local interactions with, and transformations of, these public health models and approaches from the nineteenth century to the 1950s. Taking a critical look at assumptions...
This book examines the encounter between western and Asian models of public health and medicine in a range of East and Southeast Asian countries ov...
