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Author Neelakantan, Vivek

Title The Geopolitics of Health in South and Southeast Asia : Perspectives from the Cold War to COVID-19
Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (181 p.)
Contents Cover -- Endorsements -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Thai Patronymics -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- 1. "The Monsoon Asia of Geographers": The Cold War Beginnings of the WHO Regional Office for Southeast Asia (SEARO), 1948-60 -- 2. The Cold War, Non-Alignment, and Medicine in India: The Case of Medical Education and Pharmaceutical Self-Sufficiency, 1947-57 -- 3. Malaria Eradication and Modernization in the Maldives and Sri Lanka, 1941-84
4. Thailand's Rural Doctor Society in the 1970s-80s and Its Struggles to Improve Health in the Countryside -- 5. Civic Space in the Time of COVID-19: The Case of Maritime Southeast Asia -- 6. Neighbors Rally Against the Virus: The Case of SAARC -- Index
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Public health -- Political aspects -- South Asia -- History
Public health -- Political aspects -- Southeast Asia -- History
Medical policy -- South Asia -- History
Medical policy -- Southeast Asia -- History
World health -- Political aspects -- History
World politics -- Health aspects -- History
Medical policy
Public health -- Political aspects
South Asia
Southeast Asia
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1000838226
9781000838220