Article ID: CBB000932549

Making Health Public: English Language Newspapers and the Medical Sciences in Colonial Malaya (1840s--1941) (2009)

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Liew, Kai Khiun (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 3
Pages: 209--229


Publication Date: 2009
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: Emergent Studies of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Southeast Asia
Language: English

Abstract The print and broadcast media are traditionally vital vehicles for both the transmission of information and framing of discussion on health, medicine, and diseases. However, their roles have been largely peripheral in medical historiography. In this respect, this paper explores the position of English language newspapers in colonial Malaya in identifying and disseminating epidemiological data as well as commentaries on public health issues and policies. These discussions provided a crucial platform in linking public health discourses to a more literate and influential lay public and adding to broader debates on the governance of the colony. Collectively, the articles and editorials of the print media in British Malaya were not only indicative of the extent of involvement of colonial civil society in public health. Their narratives also reflected underlying tensions between state and society in addition to sociocultural anxieties over the fluid labor and capital flows of the colonial political economy.

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Authors & Contributors
Krause, Kelly
O'Donnell, Kelly Suzanne
Lynn Hollen Lees
Goc, Nicolá
Yip, Ka-che
Silva, Cristobal Selenite
Concepts
Great Britain, colonies
Public health
Medicine and politics
Communication of scientific ideas
Journalism
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
18th century
17th century
21st century
Places
Malay; Malaysia
United States
Great Britain
Myanmar (Burma)
North America
Europe
Institutions
National Geographic Society
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