Tuberculosis the Singapore Experience, 18672018 Disease, Society and the State

Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state.

Info autore

Kah Seng Loh is a historian of Singapore and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia. He is the author of Squatters into Citizens: The 1961 Bukit Ho Swee Fire and the Making of Modern Singapore (NUS Press 2013). Loh also researches the rich and varied heritage of Singapore – housing, industrial, culinary, and medical.

Li Yang Hsu is a Singaporean infectious diseases physician by training who has spent the past decade caring for patients with and performing research on drug-resistant infections, including tuberculosis. He is currently head of the infectious diseases and Cambodia research programmes at the Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, National University of Singapore.

Riassunto

Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Li Yang Hsu, Kah Seng Hsu Loh, Kah Seng (Southeast Asian Studies on Sustainable Humanosphere Loh, Kah Seng (Southeast Asian Studies on Sustaina Loh, Loh Kah Seng, Kah Seng Loh
• Editore: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 30.06.2021
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Medicina > Tematiche generali; Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9781032084435
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3208443-5
• Numero di pagine: 180
• Serie: Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia
• Categorie: PSYCHOLOGY / Clinical Psychology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, SCIENCE / Applied Sciences, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / Legislative Branch, Singapore, History of Medicine, Infectious & contagious diseases, Infectious and contagious diseases, antimicrobial resistance, public health policy, Colonial medicine, infectious disease control, urban health history, epidemiology Singapore, tuberculosis public health strategies