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Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Disease, Society and the State

By: Kah Seng Loh,Li Yang Hsu

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Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Disease, Society and the State

By: Kah Seng Loh,Li Yang Hsu

Through a rich account of tuberculosis in Singapore from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, this book charts the relationship between disease, society and the state, outlining the struggles of colonial and post-colonial governments to cope with widespread disease and to establish effective public health programmes and institutions. Beginning in the nineteenth century when British colonial administrators viewed tuberculosis as a racial problem linked to the poverty, housing and insanitary habits of the Chinese working class, the book goes on to examine the ambitious medical and urban improvement initiatives of the returning British colonial government after the Second World War. It then considers the continuation and growth of these schemes in the post-colonial period and explores the most recent developments which include combating the resurgence of TB and the rise of antimicrobial resistance.

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1000762491

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Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

Lessons for the Age of COVID-19

By: Kah Seng Loh,Li Yang Hsu

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Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

Lessons for the Age of COVID-19

By: Kah Seng Loh,Li Yang Hsu

Singapore has faced many pandemics over the centuries, from plague, smallpox and cholera to influenza and novel coronaviruses. By examining how different governments responded, this book considers what we can learn from their experiences. Public health strategies in the city-state were often affected by issues of ethnicity and class, as well as failure to take heed of key learnings from previous outbreaks. Pandemics are a recurrent and normal feature of the human experience. Alongside medical innovation and evidence-based policymaking, the study of history is also crucial in preparing for future pandemics.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000999564

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The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

Tangled Strands of Modernity

By: Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng

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The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

Tangled Strands of Modernity

By: Edgar Liao,Cheng Tju Lim,Guo Quan Seng

The book, using a small group of left-wing student activists as a prism, explores the complex politics that underpinned the making of nation-states in Singapore and Malaysia after World War Two. While most works have viewed the period in terms of political contestation groups, the book demonstrates how it is better understood as involving a shared modernist project framed by British-planned decolonization. This pursuit of nationalist modernity was characterized by an optimism to replace the colonial system with a new state and mobilize the people into a new relationship with the state, according them new responsibilities as well as new rights. This book, based on student writings, official documents and oral history interviews, brings to life various modernist strands - liberal-democratic, ethnic-communal, and Fabian and Marxist socialist - seeking to determine the form of post-colonial Malaya. It uncovers a hitherto little-seen world where the meanings of loud slogans were fluid, vague and deeply contested. This world also comprised as much convergence between the groups as conflict, including collaboration between the Socialist Club and other political and student groups which were once its rivals, while its main ally eventually became its nemesis"--Publisher's description.

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Amsterdam University Press

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9089644091

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Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Disease, Society and the State

By: Kah Seng Loh,Li Yang Hsu

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Disease, Society and the State

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Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

Lessons for the Age of COVID-19

By: Kah Seng Loh,Li Yang Hsu

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Lessons for the Age of COVID-19

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Book's by Kah Seng Loh

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

The University Socialist Club and the Contest for Malaya

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Tuberculosis – The Singapore Experience, 1867–2018

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

Pandemics in Singapore, 1819–2022

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