Public Health in Papua New Guinea - Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884-1984

This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and technical ideas. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; maps of Papua New Guinea; Introduction; Part I. The Rise and Fall of Tropical Medicine: 1. Pre-colonial health and disease; 2. The administration of public health; 3. Early colonial medical administration; 4. The political economy of health in Papua between the wars; 5. The political economy of health in New Guinea between the wars; 6. Medical education; 7. The Pacific War: the condition of the people; Part II. The Rise and Fall of the Great Campaigns: 8. Miracle drugs, new perceptions and the post-war Public Health Department; 9. The health campaigns; 10. Women and children last; 11. Health education; 12. A national health system; 13. Primary health care; 14. The past and the future; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Donald Denoon, Denoon Donald
• Assisted by: Colin Jones (Editor), Charles Rosenberg (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.06.2002
• EAN: 9780521523028
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52302-8
• No. of pages: 168
• Series: Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the Histo; Cambridge Studies in the History of Medicine
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; MEDICAL / Public Health, 20th Century, HISTORY / World, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, MEDICAL / Preventive Medicine, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, General & world history, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, Public health & preventive medicine, General and world history, Public health and preventive medicine, Papua New Guinea