Histories of health in Southeast Asia : perspectives on the long twentieth century / edited by Tim Harper and Sunil S. Amrith.

Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2014]

viii, 250 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Krom Luang Wongsa and the house of Snidvongs : knowledge transition and the transformation of medicine in early modern Siam / Nopphanat Anuphongphat and Komatra Chuengsatiansup -- A historical overview of traditional medicine in Cambodia / Sokhieng Au -- Pilgrim ships and the frontiers of contagion : quarantine regimes from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo -- The influenza pandemic of 1918 in Southeast Asia / Kirsty Walker -- Disaster medicine in Southeast Asia / Greg Bankoff -- The demographic history of Southeast Asia in the twentieth century / Peter Boomgaard -- "Rural" health in modern Southeast Asia / Atsuko Naono -- The impact of environmental changes on forest peoples of Southeast Asia in the twentieth century / Alberto G. Gomes -- Population aging and the family : the Southeast Asian context / Theresa W. Devasahayam -- Epidemic disease in modern and contemporary Southeast Asia / Mary Wilson -- The eradication of smallpox in Indonesia / Vivek Neelakantan -- The internationalization of health in Southeast Asia / Sunil S. Amrith -- Modernizing yet marginal : hospitals and asylums in Southeast Asia in the twentieth century / Loh Kah Seng -- Healing the nation : politics, medicine, and analogies of health in Southeast Asia / Rachel Leow -- Health or tobacco : competing perspectives in modern Southeast Asia / Loh Wei Leng -- The role of non-governmental organizations in the field of health in modern Southeast Asia : the Philippine experience / Teresa S. Encarnacion Tadem.

Includes bibliographical references and index.