Decolonizing international health : India and Southeast Asia, 1930-65 /
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| Author / Creator: | Amrith, Sunil S., 1979- |
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| Imprint: | Basingstoke [England] ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. |
| Description: | xiii, 261 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6265552 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Tables and Figures
- Acknowledgements
- List of Abbreviations
- Introduction
- The problem
- The argument
- Chapter 1. Depression and the Internationalization of Public Health
- The limits of colonial medicine
- The internationalization of public health
- Two visions of rural hygiene
- Bandung, 1937
- The 'modernist' challenge
- Conclusion
- Chapter 2. War and the Rise of Disease Control
- DDT and disease control
- Building expertise
- Planning for the health of the world
- A new international health organization
- Conclusion: The ghosts of Bengal
- Chapter 3. The Political Culture of International Health
- Health and the United Nations
- Envisioning Asia's health
- Crisis and sovereignty
- Public health and the Cold War
- The birth of technical assistance
- Rights and technologies of health
- The argument for public health
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Building A New Utopia
- Projects and policies
- Health and nationalism
- A postcolonial discourse?
- Journeys to health
- Seeds of doubt
- Chapter 5. The Technopolitics of Public Health
- Human and nonhuman obstacles
- Poverty and politics
- The return of community
- Rationality and resistance
- 'A form of quackery'
- Conclusion: the ambiguities of success
- Chapter 6. The Limits of Disease Control
- Curing tuberculosis in Madras and Bangalore
- Problems of policy
- Dangerous journeys
- The end of eradication
- Eradication and evolution
- The triumph of population control
- Conclusion: dispersion and 'medical pluralism'
- Conclusion
- The effects of health policy
- Faith and doubt
- Enduring Utopias
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
