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17A Keong Saik Road

By: Charmaine Leung

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Mummy, why do you always have to leave for 17A… 17A Keong Saik Road recounts Charmaine Leung’s growing-up years on Keong Saik Road in the 1970s when it was a prominent red-light precinct in Chinatown in Singapore. An interweaving of past and present narratives, 17A Keong Saik Road tells of her mother’s journey as a young child put up for sale to becoming the madame of a brothel in Keong Saik. Unfolding her story as the daughter of a brothel operator and witnessing these changes to her family, Charmaine traces the transformation of the Keong Saik area from the 1930s to the present, and through writing, finds reconciliation. A beautiful dedication to the past, to memory, and to the people who have gone before us, 17A Keong Saik Road tells the rich stories of the Ma Je, the Pei Pa Zai, and the Dai Gu Liong—marginalised, forgotten women of the past, who despite their difficulties, persevered in working towards the hope of a better future.

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Ethos Books

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9811414939

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9789811414930

Eating the Present, Tasting the Future

Exploring India through Her Changing Food

By: Charmaine O'Brien

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Eating the Present, Tasting the Future

Exploring India through Her Changing Food

By: Charmaine O'Brien

India's food is one of her most remarkable features: its countless tastes and styles reflect the nation's history, enduring traditions, and diversity of people and place. But it is changing at a rapid rate beyond anyone's imagination. Eating the Present, Tasting the Future ventures 'off the plate' to journey through India's contemporary foodscape to discover the myriad forces transforming what, how and where Indians are producing, trading and eating their food. At a time when food and our relationship with it are topics of increasing global interest, this is a timely, and important, work, offering unique insight into a complex society.

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296

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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9357080368

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9789357080361

Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986

By: Charmaine Robson

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Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986

By: Charmaine Robson

This book focuses on twentieth-century Australian leprosaria to explore the lives of indigenous patients and the Catholic women missionaries who nursed them. Distinguished from previous historical studies of leprosy, the book examines the care and management of the incarcerated, enabling a broader understanding of their experience, beyond a singular trope of banishment, oppression and death. From the 1930s until the 1980s, respective governments appointed the trained sisters to four leprosaria across remote northern Australia, where almost two thousand people had been removed from their homes and detained under law for years - sometimes decades. The book traces the sisters’ holistic nursing from early efforts of amelioration and palliation to their part in the successful treatment of leprosy after World War II. It reveals the ways the sisters stepped out of their assigned roles and attempted to shape the institutions as places of health and hygiene, of European culture and education, and of Christianity. Making use of accounts from patients, doctors; bureaucrats; missionary men; and Indigenous families and communities, the book offers fresh perspectives on two important strands of history. First, its attention to the day-to-day work of the Australian sisters helps to demystify leprosy healthcare by female missionaries, generally. Secondly, with the sisters specifically caring for Indigenous people, this book exposes the institutional practices and goals specific to race relations of both the Australian government and Catholic missionaries. An important and timely read for anyone interested in Indigenous history, medical history and the connections between race, religion and healthcare, this book contextualizes the twentieth-century leprosy epidemic within Australia's broader colonial history.

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272

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Springer Nature

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3031057961

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9783031057960

Chinese and Botanical Medicines

Traditional Uses and Modern Scientific Approaches

By: Raymond Cooper,Chun-Tao Che,Daniel Kam-Wah Mok,Charmaine Wing-Yee Tsang

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Chinese and Botanical Medicines

Traditional Uses and Modern Scientific Approaches

By: Raymond Cooper,Chun-Tao Che,Daniel Kam-Wah Mok,Charmaine Wing-Yee Tsang

Chinese and Botanical Medicines: Traditional Uses and Modern Scientific Approaches is a classroom-tested book that contains a balance of chemistry, the history of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), and the theory and practice of a modern TCM practitioner. This distinct book reviews the scientific methods for collecting data and supporting evidence for the efficacy and safety of Chinese drugs and medicines. It also reflects on the different views on health, disease and therapy, and their impacts on the relationships between man and nature.

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180

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CRC Press

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1351645250

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9781351645256

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17A Keong Saik Road

17A Keong Saik Road

Eating the Present, Tasting the Future

Eating the Present, Tasting the Future

Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986

Missionary Women, Leprosy and Indigenous Australians, 1936–1986

Chinese and Botanical Medicines

Chinese and Botanical Medicines

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