Health Care in Java
Past and Present
Published on 1. January 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
206 pages
978-90-6718-104-4 (ISBN)
Description
The study of health and illness in Indonesia has long been an expanding field for scholars with a medical or social science background, both in Indonesia and abroad. European interest in this topic has increased considerably during recent decades. The articles presented in this volume highlight the cultural, political, economic, and social framework within which theory and practice of health care in Java operate at present and in the past.
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Content
Godelieve M. van Heteren, "Which differences will have to go? The variety of physiological differentations in the colonial context of Java 1860-1900" / Rosalia Sciortino, "The multifariousness of nursing in the Netherlands Indies" / Han Mesters, "J.L. Hydrick in the Netherlands Indies: An American view on Dutch public health policy" / Ina E. Slamet-Velsink, "Some reflections on the sense and nonsense of traditional health care" / Solita Sarwono, "Personalistic belief in health: A case in West Java" / Nathalie Köllmann and Corrie van Veggel, "Posyandu: Theory and practice" / Rosalia Sciortino, "Rural nurses and doctors: The discrepancy between Western concepts and Javanese practices" / Ines Smyth, "Maternal mortality and family planning in Indonesia" / Juliette Koning, "Family planning acceptance in a rural Central Javanese village" / Ratna Saptari, "The political economy of smoking: The case of the cigarette industry in Indonesia"