The Geopolitics of Health in South and Southeast Asia

Perspectives from the Cold War to COVID-19
Herausgeber: Neelakantan, Vivek

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Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses the complexity of South and SE Asia in international health, taking into account the impact of the geopolitics of the Cold War on the development of public health and development in the regions. It will be a valuable contribution to the History of Medicine and Health and Political Economy of South and SE Asia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781032364537
• ISBN-10: 103236453X
• Artikelnr.: 66267187

Autorenporträt

Vivek Neelakantan is a Southeast Asian medical historian and a 2023 Brocher Visiting Fellow, sponsored by the Brocher Foundation, Switzerland. His current research investigates the origins of primary healthcare in Southeast Asia from a transnational perspective.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. "The Monsoon Asia of Geographers": The Cold War Beginnings
of the WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia (SEARO), 1948-60; 2. The Cold
War, Non-Alignment and Medicine in India: The Case of Medical Education and
Pharmaceutical Self-Sufficiency, 1947-57; 3. Malaria Eradication and
Modernization in Maldives and Sri Lanka, 1941-84; 4. Thailand's Rural
Doctor Society in the 1970s and 1980s and its Struggles to Improve Health
in the Countryside; 5. Civic Space in Southeast Asia in the Time of
COVID-19: The Case of Maritime Southeast Asia; 6. Neighbors Rally Against
the Virus: The Case of SAARC