Book ID: CBB001213558

Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia (2012)

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Monnais-Rousselot, Laurence (Editor)
Cook, Harold John (Editor)


NUS Press


Publication Date: 2012
Physical Details: xxxi + 290; ill.
Language: English

Publisher: The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific doctrines, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, colonial interests, governments and policies, international interventions, and by a wide range of health agents and intermediaries. Their findings call into question many of the claims based on medicalization and biopolitics that treat change as a process of rupture. While governments, both colonial and national, instituted policies that affected large numbers of people, much health care remained rooted in a more interactive and locally-mediated experience, in which tradition, adaptation and hybridization are as important as innovation and conflict. `Semi-subaltern' Western-trained doctors and varied traditional healers, many of them women, were among the cultural brokers involved in the building of health care systems, and helped circulate mixed practices and ideas about medicine and health even as they found their place in new professional and social hierarchies in an era of globalization.

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Reviewed By

Review Jones, Margaret (2014) Review of "Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 755-756). unapi

Review Neelakantan, Vivek (2013) Review of "Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia". Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine (pp. 231-233). unapi

Review Jones, Margaret (2014) Review of "Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 755-756). unapi

Review Saha, Jonathan (2014) Review of "Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia". Social History of Medicine (pp. 399-400). unapi

Includes Chapters

Chapter Raquel A. G. Reyes; Laurence Monnais; Harold J. Cook (2013) Science, Sex and Superstition: Midwifery in 19th Century Philippines. In: Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia. unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Shin, Dongwon
Yukushina, Irina I.
Capasso, Lorenzo
Rachel Leow
Ekkert, Natalia V.
Arsentyev, Evgeny V.
Concepts
Medicine
Health
Medicine and politics
Globalization; internationalization
Medicine, traditional
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
20th century, early
21st century
18th century
17th century
Places
Southeast Asia
Korea
Great Britain
England
Rhodesia
Kenya
Institutions
Royal Society of London
Royal College of Surgeons, London
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