Histories of Health in Southeast Asia

Tim Harper is Reader in Southeast Asian History at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge, Fellow of Magdalene College, and Associate Director of the Centre for History and Economics. He is author of The End of Empire and the Making of Malaya and (with Christopher Bayly) Forgotten Armies: The Fall of British Asia, 1941–45 and Forgotten Wars: The End of Britain's Asian Empire.Sunil S. Amrith is Reader in Modern Asian History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is author of Decolonizing International Health: India and Southeast Asia, 1930–65; Migration and Diaspora in Modern Asia; and Crossing the Bay of Bengal: The Furies of Nature and the Fortunes of Migrants.

• Introduction / Sunil Amrith and Tim HarperPart I. The Long Duree1. Knowledge Transition and the Transformation of Medicine in Early Modern Siam / Komatra Chuengsatiansup & Nopphanat Anuphongphat Part II. Health and Crisis2. Pilgrim Ships and the Frontiers of Contagion: Quarantine Regimes from Southeast Asia to the Red Sea / Eric Tagliacozzo3. The Influenza Epidemic of 1918-19 / Kirsty Walker4. Disaster Medicine in Southeast Asia / Greg BankoffPart III. Uneven Transitions5. The Demographic History of Southeast Asia in the Twentieth Century / Peter Boomgaard6. "Rural" Health in Modern Southeast Asia / Atsuko Naoko 7. Population Ageing and the Family: The Southeast Asian Context / Theresa W. Devasahayam8. Epidemic Disease in Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asia / Mary WilsonPart IV. The Politics of Health9. The Internationalization of Health in Southeast Asia / Sunil Amrith10. Modernising yet Marginal: Hospitals and Asylums in Southeast Asia in the 20th Century / Loh Kah Seng11. Healing the Nation: Politics, Medicine and Analogies of Health in Southeast Asia / Rachel Leow12. Health or Tobacco: Competing Perspectives in Modern Southeast Asia / Loh Wei Leng13. The Role of Non-governmental Organizations in the Field of Health in Modern Southeast Asia: the Philippine Experience / Teresa S Encarnacion TademNotesContributorsIndex

"The essays in this volume . . . deserve a wide readership, not only by those interested in the history of medicine but by all who are interested in the history of Southeast Asia."—East Asian Science, Technology and Society"[T]his volume is a remarkable addition to scholarship. . . . Highly recommended."—Choice