Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia

Herausgeber: Bu, Liping

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War. An essential read for historians and policy-makers of public health, and historians of Asia during the Cold War.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 290g
• ISBN-13: 9781032330938
• ISBN-10: 1032330937
• Artikelnr.: 72075104

Autorenporträt

Liping Bu is Reid-Knox Chair Professor and Chair of the History Department at Alma College, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. "Taking Our Own Road:" Building the People's Health in
Socialist China 2. Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic
Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of
Paragonimiasis Eradication 3. Towards Economic Growth: The Development of
Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961-1988 4. Health Insurance
Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the
Introduction of Universal Health Care 5. Foreign Aid, Virus Research and
Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962 6. Indonesian
Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998