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Language: en
Pages: 261
Authors: Tim Harper
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-10-01 - Publisher: Indiana University Press

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Health patterns in Southeast Asia have changed profoundly over the past century. In that period, epidemic and chronic diseases, environmental transformations, a
Global Movements, Local Concerns
Language: en
Pages: 330
Authors: Laurence Monnais-Rousselot
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012 - Publisher:

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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, coloni
A History of Early Southeast Asia
Language: en
Pages: 400
Authors: Kenneth R. Hall
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-12-28 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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This comprehensive history provides a fresh interpretation of Southeast Asia from 100 to 1500, when major social and economic developments foundational to moder
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Leo van Bergen
Categories: Medical
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-06-30 - Publisher: NUS Press

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The story of leprosy in the Dutch East Indies from the beginning of the 19th century to the middle of the 20th reveals important themes in the colonial enterpri
Death and Disease in Southeast Asia
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Norman G. Owen
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1987 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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From a 'decoding' of ancient Balinese myths to the careful computation of mortality rates for the modern Philippines, these essays extend our understanding of S