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Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940

Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940

9780521524483
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This 1996 book is a history of health and disease in colonial Malaya from colonisation to the outbreak of World War II. This was a period marked by dramatic economic expansion, rapid population growth and changes in patterns of infection. Drawing on the contrasting environments created by colonial capitalism, the book emphasises the role of medicine in legitimating colonial presence and shows that the ill-health of individual populations was directly related to their social and political climate. Viewing colonial Malaya through a series of complex lenses, the book integrates social and material history, historical epidemiology and demography, as well as theories of political economy, feminism and postcolonialism. In doing so, it offers a compelling account of the history of disease and changing health status under colonialism.
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Cambridge University Press
97403
9780521524483
9780521524483

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Publication date
2002
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
336
Dimensions (mm)
152.00 x 229.00
Weight (g)
500
  • 1. Introduction:: imposing the Empire; 2. State statistics and corporeal reality:: problems of epidemiology and evidence; 3. Biology, medical ideas and the social context of illness; 4. Public health and the pathogenic city; 5. Sickness and the world of work:: the men on the estates; 6. Brothel politics and the bodies of women; 7. Domestic lives:: reproduction, the mother and the child; 8. Conclusion:: the moral logic of colonial medicine.
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