Sickness and the State
Subtitle: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 18701940
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780521524483
Subjects: History of medicine; Medical / Nursing; Medical; Malaysia; Health Care Delivery; History; Medical / History; Medical policy--Malaysia--Malaya--History; Medical-Health Care Delivery
First sentence: The expansion of British colonial jurisdiction facilitated, from the mid-nineteenth century, the development of extractive industries and plantations on the Malay Peninsula and its offshore islands.