Fighting for Health

Michele Thompson holds an MA in East Asian History and a PhD in Southeast Asian History. Her research and publications focus on the History of Medicine and the Environment of Southeast Asia. Kathryn Sweet is a social historian of Laos whose research has focused on health, development and cultural issues of the twentieth century. Michitake Aso is a global environmental historian whose research has focused on Vietnamese and French agriculture, medicine, and health in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1: Health, Agriculture and Animism in the 'Development' of Portuguese Timor, 1945- 1975
Chapter 2: Tool of Domination and Act of Benevolence: Medicine and Healthcare during the Malayan Emergency, 1948-1960
Chapter 3: Health Sector Contestation in Cold War Laos, 1950-1975
Chapter 4: More Eastern than Traditional: The Making of Ðông y in the Republic of Vietnam during the Cold War
Chapter 5: Building a "socialist health system": Soviet assistance in malaria control in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam during the Cold War
Chapter 6: Mobilising Applied Medical Knowledge for Indonesia: Soekarnoist Science and Asian-African Solidarity, 1950s
Chapter 7: The Cholera Pandemic, Chinese Diaspora, and the Cold War Politics in Southeast Asia and China during the 1960s
Chapter 8: Managing Wartime Conditions: South Korean Developmental Ambitions, Public Health, and Emerging Forms of Overseas Medical Outreach, 1964-1973
Glossary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index