Sickness and the State : Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870–1940
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0521524482
ISBN-13
9780521524483
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Aug 8th, 2002
Print length
336 Pages
Weight
500 grams
Dimensions
22.90 x 15.20 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Health systems & servicesHealth systems and servicesHistory of medicine
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This 1996 book is a history of health and disease in Malaya from colonisation to World War II. It emphasises the role of medicine in maintaining colonialism, linking the ill-health in regions to the various political climates. It integrates social and material history, epidemiology and demography, politics, feminism and postcolonialism.
This 1996 book is a history of health and disease in colonial Malaya from colonisation to the outbreak of World War II. This was a period marked by dramatic economic expansion, rapid population growth and changes in patterns of infection. Drawing on the contrasting environments created by colonial capitalism, the book emphasises the role of medicine in legitimating colonial presence and shows that the ill-health of individual populations was directly related to their social and political climate. Viewing colonial Malaya through a series of complex lenses, the book integrates social and material history, historical epidemiology and demography, as well as theories of political economy, feminism and postcolonialism. In doing so, it offers a compelling account of the history of disease and changing health status under colonialism.
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