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Depression and the Internationalization of Public Health

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This chapter is concerned with the constitution of an international discourse of public health in the 1930s, a discourse that wove previously fragmented experiments in medicine and sanitation across Asia into a more unified set of ideas and practices. While colonial public health efforts remained fragmented and touched a very small proportion of Asia’s populations, the language of rural public health brought together a somewhat unlikely range of visions on the fringes of colonial policy. Rural hygiene came to unite a range of aspirations, from Mahatma Gandhi’s quest for bodily and hygienic reform, to the attempts of a Rockefeller Foundation official to transform the health of a village in the Dutch East Indies.

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Amrith, S.S. (2006). Depression and the Internationalization of Public Health. In: Decolonizing International Health. Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230627369_2

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