Public health in Papua New Guinea : medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984 / Donald De...
Public health in Papua New Guinea : medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984 / Donald De...
Public health in Papua New Guinea : medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984 / Donald Denoon with Kathleen Dugan and Leslie Marshall.
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Cambridge ; New York ; Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Date
1989.
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N362.109953/1
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English
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Physical content
vi, 155 p., [5] p. of plates : maps ; 24 cm.
Contents
Part I. The Rise and Fall of Tropical Medicine: 1. Pre-colonial health and disease; 2. The administration of public health; 3. Early colonial medical administration; 4. The political economy of health in Papua between the wars; 5. The political economy of health in New Guinea between the wars; 6. Me...
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Cambridge ; New York ; Cambridge University Press, 1989.
Place of Publication
England
Date Published
1989.
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Summary
This book concerns the development of institutional medicine, medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the relationship between public health and the medical profession and colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and technical ideas which deter...
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Public health in Papua New Guinea : medical possibility and social constraint, 1884-1984 / Donald Denoon with Kathleen Dugan and Leslie Marshall.
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Cambridge history of medicine.
Includes index.
Bibliography: p. 123-151.
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N362.109953/1
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74VvAVdRG4Jy
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0521523028
9780521360302
0521360307
9780521523028
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362.109953
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991013556449702626
