Keywords:
Electronic books.
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
Pages:
1 online resource (181 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781000762136
Series Statement:
Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia Series
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/geomar/detail.action?docID=5986904
Language:
English
Note:
Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Introduction -- A long history of tuberculosis -- Reflexive upon success -- Social history: patients and SATA -- The shape of the book -- Notes -- Chapter 1: The pauper hospital -- The pauper problem -- Tuberculosis at the pauper hospital -- The disease in the community -- At century's end -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Disease of town-dwelling Chinese -- Tuberculosis and the shophouse -- Simpson and the sanitary state of Singapore -- Simpson redux: The 1918 Housing Commission -- The 1923 Tuberculosis Committee -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Houses and races of the colony -- Origins of public housing: the Singapore Improvement Trust -- Constructing the population -- Chinese immunity and resistance -- Fear of infection and stigma -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Struggle for a post-war policy -- The war as a catalyst -- The dreaded killer -- A medical plan sans tuberculosis -- The tuberculosis policy -- Notes -- Chapter 5: The Tuberculosis Control Unit -- Towards a centralised programme -- Converting TTSH into a sanatorium -- Urban planning for the 'cubicle city' -- Notes -- Chapter 6: The action programme -- 'TB is on the way out' -- Rehousing the population -- Clinical trials and transnational connections -- A reflexive state in the 1970s -- Disease of the elderly -- Notes -- Chapter 7: Laboratory of citizenship -- Treatment in the community -- Treatment allowances and home visits -- Screening the nation -- Stigma and spitting -- A further STEP -- Notes -- Chapter 8: Newborns and children of the nation -- School X-rays, checks and contact tracing -- BCG vaccination, reflection and reform -- Feeding the child -- Notes -- Chapter 9: SATA: The community against TB -- Laymen and experts -- The service provider.
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Other battlefronts -- South winds -- Notes -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Archival sources -- Britain -- Singapore -- Published sources -- Oral history interviews by Oral History Centre, National Archives of Singapore -- Oral history interviews by Kah Seng Loh -- Newspapers -- Books and articles -- Index.
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