Death and disease in Southeast Asia : explorations in social, medical and demographic history
- Oxford Oxford University Press 1987
- 287p.
This book contain, 1 Toward a History of Health in Southeast Asia 2 Low Population Growth and Its Causes in Pre-Colonial Southeast Asia 3 Morbidity and Mortality in Java, 1820-1880: Changing Patterns of Disease and Death 4 Morbidity and Mortality in Java, 1880-1940: The Evidence of the Colonial Reports 5 Measuring Mortality in the Nineteenth Century Philippines 6 Bali: Myth, Magic and Morbidity 7 Asiatic Cholera in Siam: Its First Occurrence and the 1820 Epidemic 8 Vietnamese Attitudes Regarding Illness and Healing 9 Death and Disease in Nineteenth Century Batavia 10 Plague in Java 11 The Influenza Pandemic of 1918 in Indonesia 12 Blame, Responsibility and Remedial Action: Death, Disease and the Infant in Early Twentieth Century Malaya