1st Edition

Public Health and Cold War Politics in Asia

Edited By Liping Bu Copyright 2024
200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

200 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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 World War II. Looking at examples from... Read more

Introduction

1. "Taking Our Own Road": Building the People’s Health in Socialist China

Liping Bu

2. Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of Paragonimiasis Eradication

Junho Jung

3. Towards Economic Growth: The Development of Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961 to 1988

Park Yunjae

4. Health Insurance Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the Introduction of Universal Health Care

Takakazu Yamagishi

5. Foreign Aid, Virus Research and Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962

Shirish N Kavadi

6. Indonesian Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998

Vivek Neelakantan

Biography

Liping Bu is Reid-Knox Chair Professor and Chair of the History Department at Alma College, USA.