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Public health and Cold War politics in Asia
Title
Public health and Cold War politics in Asia / edited by Liping Bu.
ISBN
1000953904
1000953947
1003318169
9781000953909
9781000953947
9781003318163
9781032330921
9781032330938
Publication
Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
1 online resource (viii, 192 pages) : color illustrations.
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Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 14, 2023).
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Biographical / Historical Note
Liping Bu is Reid-Knox Chair Professor and Chair of the History Department at Alma College, USA.
Summary
"Bu and her contributors illustrate the complexity of tensions and negotiations in the development of different types of public health systems in Asia during the early Cold War. Competing models of development with different political ideologies and economic enterprises increasingly influenced Asian countries in their efforts to build modern nations after WWII. Looking at examples from China, Japan, both Koreas, India, and Indonesia, the contributors to this volume look at how a range of Asian countries handled this post-colonial challenge. Health became a pivotal area that sustained the political discourse of differentiating one type of society from the other and promoting each system's advantages over the other's during the Cold War. Central to the discourse of a just society and the well-being of citizens was the promotion of public health and welfare for the people. The right to health was considered a fundamental human right as well as an essential social justice. A healthy population was also a prerequisite for national economic prosperity. Public health in post-war Asia was, therefore, a sociopolitical matter as well as a concern for the well-being of individuals. The health of the people demonstrated the advancement of a nation and provided the insurance for economic productivity and national prosperity. An essential read for historians and policy-makers of public health, and historians of Asia during the Cold War"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Public health and Cold War politics in Asia Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2024]
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Cold War in Asia
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Taking Our Own Road: Building the People's Health in Socialist China / Liping Bu
Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of Paragonimiasis Eradication / Junho Jung
Towards Economic Growth: The Development of Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961-1988 / Park Yunjae
Health Insurance Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the Introduction of Universal Health Care / Takakazu Yamagishi
Foreign Aid, Virus Research and Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962 / Shirish N Kavadi
Indonesian Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998 / Vivek Neelakantan
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