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

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

List of contents

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

About the author

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

Product details

• Authors: Liping (Alma College Bu
• Assisted by: Liping Bu (Editor), Bu Liping (Editor), Ka-Che Yip (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.08.2014
• EAN: 9780415719056
• ISBN: 978-0-415-71905-6
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Folklore; Sociology, Asia, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Illness & addiction: social aspects, History of Medicine, Public Administration, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General