Imperial contagions : medicine, hygiene, and cultures of planning in Asia / edited by Robert Peckham and David M. Pomfret.

Other Title:

Medicine, hygiene, and cultures of planning in Asia

Publication:

Hong Kong : Hong Kong University Press, [2013]

Format/Description:

Book
xi, 307 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Subjects:

Medicine -- Asia -- History.
Public health -- Asia -- History.
Colonies -- Asia -- History.
Colonies -- Social conditions.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Combating nuisance: sanitation, regulation, and the politics of property in colonial Hong Kong / Cecilia Chu
chapter 2. "Tropicalizing" planning: sanitation, housing, and technologies of improvement in colonial Singapore, 1907-1942 / Jiat-Hwee Chang

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-300) and index.

Contributor:

Peckham, Robert, editor of compilation.
Pomfret, David M., 1973- editor of compilation.

ISBN:

9789888139125 (hbk.)
9888139126 (hbk.)
9888139525 (pbk.)
9789888139521 (pbk.)

OCLC:

820111277

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