Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia

Abstract

Half title, title and copyright page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Real Expedicion de la Vacuna and the Philippines, 1803-1807 -- Chapter 2: The Nguyen Initiative to Acquire Vaccinia, 1820-1821 -- Chapter 3: Wats and Worms: The Activities of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Board in Southeast Asia (1913-1940) -- Chapter 4: The 1937 Bandung Conference on Rural Hygiene: Toward a New Vision of Healthcare? -- Chapter 5: Science, Sex, and Superstition: Midwifery in 19th-Century Philippines -- Chapter 6: Dokter Djawa and Dukun: Perceptions of Indigenous Western-Trained Doctors about Traditional Healers in the Dutch East Indies around 1900 -- Chapter 7: Torn between Economics, Public Health and Chinese Nationalism: The Anti-Opium Campaign of Colonial Malaya, c. 1890s-1941 -- Chapter 8: Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the Colonial City -- Chapter 9: HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Politics of Access to Medicines in Thailand: A Study of the Health Impact of Globalization -- Chapter 10: A Revolutionary Movement to Bring Traditional Medicine Back to the Grassroots Level: On the Biopolitization of Herbal Medicine in Vietnam -- Chapter 11: Medicine and Public Health in Thai Historiography: From an Elitist View to Counter_Hegemonic Discourse -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.