Research Catalog

Title

Public health in Asia and the Pacific : historical and comparative perspectives / edited by Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Lewis, Milton James.
• Macpherson, Kerrie L., 1950-

Description

xi, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 11

Uniform Title

Routledge advances in Asia-Pacific studies ; 11.

Subjects

• Public Health
• Cultural Characteristics
• Australia
• Pacific Islands
• Public health > Asia
• Developing Countries
• Public Health > history
• Socioeconomic Factors
• History, Modern 1601-
• Preventive Medicine
• Public health > Islands of the Pacific
• Asia

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Public health in Asia and the Pacific : an introduction / Milton J. Lewis and Kerrie L. MacPherson -- Invisible borders : Hong Kong, China and the imperatives of public health / Kerrie L. MacPherson -- History of public health in modern Japan : the road to becoming the healthiest nation in the world / Masahira Anesaki -- A history of public health in Korea / In-Sok Yeo -- History of public health in modern India : 1857-2005 / Radhika Ramasubban -- Public health in Thailand : changing medical paradigms and disease patterns in political and economic context / Paul T. Cohen -- 'Could confinement be humanised'? : a modern history of leprosy in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais -- Conflict and collaboration in public health : the Rockefeller Foundation and the Dutch colonial government in Indonesia / Terence H. Hull -- The political determinants of public health in Timor-Leste : foreign domination and the path to independence / Sue Ingram -- From colonial economy to social equity : history of public health in Malaysia / Kai Hong Phua and Mary Lai Lin Wong -- From colony to global city : public health strategies and the control of disease in Singapore / Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Kai Hong Phua, and Kelly Fu -- Public health and the clash of cultures : the Philippine cholera epidemics / Willie T. Ong -- Public health in Australia from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century / Milton J. Lewis -- Papua New Guinea : epidemiological transition, public health and the Pacific / Vicki Luker -- History of public health in Pacific Island countries / Richard Taylor.

ISBN

• 9780415359627 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 0415359627 (hbk. : alk. paper)
• 9780203007563 (ebk.)
• 0203007565 (ebk.)

LCCN

• 2007014083
• 40015581445

OCLC

• ocn123053467
• 123053467
• SCSB-8854675

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries