Hans Pols (University of Sydney)

Nurturing Indonesia

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This history of medicine in Indonesia widens its scope to cover the social role of the medical profession. Pols' focus on decolonisation and the role of physicians in this political process means this study will appeal not only to historians of medicine but also to historians of Southeast Asia.

Produktdetails

• Global Health Histories
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. November 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 450g
• ISBN-13: 9781108440677
• ISBN-10: 1108440673
• Artikelnr.: 74975809

Autorenporträt

Hans Pols is Associate Professor in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney. He helped found the Indonesian Association of the History of Medicine (PERSEKIN) in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: colonial dreams, national awakenings, and cosmopolitan aspirations
1. Abdul Rivai: medicine and the enticement of modernity
2. The enchantment of cosmopolitan science: student life at the Dutch East Indies medical colleges
3. The Indies youth movements: progress, westernisation, and cultural pride
4. Professional aspirations and colonial ambivalence: the Association of Indies Physicians
5. The insults of colonial psychiatry and the psychological damage of colonialism
6. The Great Depression: Rockefeller initiatives and medical nationalism
7. Indonesian medicine in the Greater East-Asia co-prosperity sphere
8. Medical heroism and the Indonesian revolution
9. Medicine in independent Indonesia: national physicians and international health
Conclusion: the rise and fall of the national physician
Bibliography
Index.