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Fighting for Health: Medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia


Publisher: NUS Press
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  • For far too long, Southeast Asia has been treated as a static backdrop for the exploits and discoveries of Western biomedical doctors. Yet, Southeast Asians have been vital to the significant developments in the prevention and treatment of diseases that have taken place in the region and beyond.

    Our volume focuses on Southeast Asia during the Cold War because this was a time when many of the institutions and people that have shaped the subsequent responses to outbreaks, epidemics, and pandemics first developed. In other words, the Cold War framed many current trends in less than obvious ways.

    The diversity of approaches to health and medicine in Cold War Southeast Asia also reminds us of the possibilities, and limits, of human intervention in the face of political, social, economic, and microbial realities. More than just a source of emerging infectious diseases, the people and places of Southeast Asia have provided a clinical trial for different health regimes.

    This volume highlights new perspectives and methods that have evolved from research presented at regional conferences, including the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA) series. These insights serve to challenge dominant models of the medical humanities that still ignore much human experience.

    Contributors:

    • Annick Guenel
    • Christopher Shepherd
    • John DiMoia
    • Nara Oda
    • Por Heong Hong
    • Vivek Neelakantan
    • Xiaoping Fang
ISBN: 9789813252561
Cover Type: Paperback
Page Count: 296
Year Published: 2024
Size: 229mm x 152mm
Language: English
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