Histories of Health in Southeast Asia Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century

Name: Histories of Health in Southeast Asia Perspectives on the Long Twentieth Century
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ISBN: 9780253014917

ISBN-10: 0253014913

ISBN-13: 9780253014917

Edition: 2014

Authors: Tim Harper, Sunil S. Amrith

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Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, and international health institutions have created new connections within the region and the increased interdependence of Southeast Asia with China and India. In this volume leading scholars provide a new approach to the history of health in Southeast Asia. Framed by a series of synoptic essays on the "Landscapes of Health" in Southeast Asia in 1914, 1950, and 2014 the essays interweave local, national, and regional perspectives. They range from essays on long-term processes such as changing epidemics, mortality and aging, and…

Book details

Copyright year: 2014
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 10/1/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.770
Language: English

Sunil S. Amrith is Reader in Modern Asian History at Birkbeck College, University of London.