Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies

by Hans Pols

Hans Pols proposes a new perspective on the history of colonial medicine from the viewpoint of indigenous physicians. The Indonesian medical profession in the Dutch East Indies actively participated in political affairs by joining and leading nationalist associations, by publishing in newspapers and magazines, and by becoming members of city councils and the colonial parliament. Indonesian physicians were motivated by their medical training, their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108424570
• ISBN13: 9781108424578
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 302 Pages
• Weight: 1.39 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"