Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War. An essential read for historians and policy-makers of public health, and historians of Asia during the Cold War.

List of contents

Introduction 1. "Taking Our Own Road:" Building the People's Health in Socialist China 2. Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of Paragonimiasis Eradication 3. Towards Economic Growth: The Development of Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961-1988 4. Health Insurance Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the Introduction of Universal Health Care 5. Foreign Aid, Virus Research and Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962 6. Indonesian Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998

About the author

Liping Bu is Reid-Knox Chair Professor and Chair of the History Department at Alma College, USA.

Summary

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War. An essential read for historians and policy-makers of public health, and historians of Asia during the Cold War.

Product details

• Authors: Liping (Alma College Bu
• Assisted by: Liping Bu (Editor), Bu Liping (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.12.2024
• EAN: 9781032330938
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3233093-8
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: The Cold War in Asia
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Sociology, Asia, MEDICAL / Public Health, HISTORY / Asia / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, Illness & addiction: social aspects, Regional Studies, Regional / International studies, Asian History, Medical Sociology, Health, illness and addiction: social aspects, The Cold War, Cold wars and proxy conflicts