Uncertainty, anxiety, frugality
Subtitle: dealing with leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816-1942
By: Leo van Bergen
Series: History of medicine in Southeast Asia; History of medicine in Southeast Asia series
Publisher: NUS Press; National University of Singapore Press
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Singapore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9789814722834
Subjects: Leprosy; History; Medical policy; Colonies; Social aspects; Netherlandish colonies
Other titles: Dealing with leprosy in the Dutch East Indies, 1816-1942
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

In English.
Table of contents: title: 1. Trade and the Dutch East India Company; title: 2. The period of the cultivation system; title: 3. The rise of private initiative; title: 4. Ethical politics and political frugality; title: 5. Proselytizing and labour management in the new leprosy colonies; title: 6. Care of the sick by the Society for Combatting Leprosy in the Dutch Indies; title: 7. Indonesian nationalism and economic crisis.