Medicine and Imperialism: A History of British Colonial Medicine in the Malay Peninsula

3, #1

Nonfiction, History, Reference, Historiography, Asian, Southeast Asia, British

• Author: Hairudin Harun
• ISBN: 9781386053255
• Publisher: Aaron Quill
• Publication: December 24, 2017
• Language: English

This book is a historical account of the British colonial medical establishment, health policy and medical science research in the Malay Peninsula (currently West Malaysia). The account here, in three volumes, is based on a study of primary and secondary historical colonial sources found in the U.K. and Malaysia, and it covers the period of British imperialism in the Peninsula between the mid-eighteenth and the early twentieth century.