Translating the body : : medical education in Southeast Asia / / edited by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson & John Harley Warner.

• Superior document: History of medicine in Southeast Asia series.
• TeilnehmendeR: Pols, Hans,; Thompson, Claudia Michele,; Warner, John Harley, 1953-; Rafferty, Anne Marie
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore :, NUS Press, National University of Singapore,, [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Series: History of medicine in Southeast Asia series.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (ix, 370 pages) :; illustrations, portraits

Two distinct nursing styles fought for dominance within the nursing world in the interwar period and British Malaya provides a historical laboratory with which to study the varied goals of British and North American nursing.

Table of Contents

Nel Stokvis-Cohen Stuart, 1881-1964 and her role in educating female nurses and midwives in the Dutch East Indies / Liesbeth Hesselink -- Trouble with "status" competing models of British and North American public health nursing education and practice in British Malaya / Rosemary Wall and Anne Marie Rafferty -- Cattle for the colony, veterinary science and animal breeding in colonial Indochina / Annick Guénel -- Women's health in Laos from colonial times to present / Kathryn Sweet -- Learning to heal the people, socialist medicine and education in Vietnam, 1945-54 / Michitake Aso -- The expansion and transformation of medical education in Indonesia during the 1950s in Jakarta and Surabaya / Vivek Neelakantan -- Cambodian pathology, imagining modern biomedicine in the Cambodian-Soviet medical journal, Revue médico-chirurgicale de l'hôpital de l'amitié Khméro-Soviétique, 1961-71 / Jenna Grant -- Epidemics, empire, and education, contested discourses on the 1981 influenza pandemic in the Philippines / Framcis A. Gealogo -- Medical education from bellow, self-medication, medical pluralism, and therapeutic citizenship in colonial Vietnam / Laurence Monnais -- The invention of medical tradition in Thailand, Thai traditional medicine and Thai massage / Junko Iida -- Honoring the teachers, constructing the lineage, A Wai Khru ritual among healers in Chiang Mai, Thailand / C. Pierce Salguero