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...Erik Martinez Kuhonta Achieving Access: Professional Movements and the Politics of Health Universalism . By Joseph Harris . Ithaca, N.Y. : ILR Press , 2017 . xiv, 268 pp. ISBN: 9781501709968 (cloth). Democratizing Health Care: Welfare State Building in Korea and Thailand . By Illan...

...Vivian Lin Public Health in Asia during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Global Health Governance, Migrant Labor, and International Health Crises . Edited by Anoma Van Der Veere , Florian Schneider , and Catherine Lo . Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press , 2022 . 272 pp. ISBN...

...P. K. B. Nayar Health Status of Kerala: Paradox of Economic Backwardness and Health Development . By P. G. K. Panikar and C. R. Soman . Trivandrum : Centre for Development Studies , 1984 . 159 pp. $12.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1989 1989 910...

...Katherine A. Mason Infertile Environments: Epigenetic Toxicology and the Reproductive Health of Chinese Men . By Janelle Lamoreaux . Durham, NC : Duke University Press , 2023 . ix, 125 pp. ISBN: 9781478019336 . © 2024 Association for Asian Studies 2024 What does the wide...

...Ishita Pande Climates and Constitutions: Health, Race, Environment, and British Imperialism in India 1600–1850 . By Mark Harrison . New York : Oxford University Press , 2000 . 263 pp. $29.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2002 2002 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Rachel M. Safman Intimate Knowledge: Women and Their Health in North-East Thailand . By Andrea Whittaker . St. Leonards, N.S.W. : Allen and Unwin , 2000 . x , 213 pp. A$35.00 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 B O O K R E V I E W S S O U T H E A S T...

...Mark VanLandingham Working at the Bar: Sex Work and Health Communication in Thailand . By Thomas M. Steinfatt . Westport, Conn. : Ablex Publishing , 2002 . xi , 435 pp. $87.95 (cloth); $32.95 (paper). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2005 2005 B O O K R E V I E W S S O...

...Seung-Kyung Kim Korean Elderly Women in America: Everyday Life, Health, and Illness . By Keum-Young Chung Pang . New York : AMS Press, Inc. , 1991 . 353 pp. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 402 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES religion approaches...

... . Newbury Park, Calif. : Sage Publications , 1988 . Indian Women: Their Health and Economic Productivity . By Meera Chatterjee . World Bank Discussion Papers, No. 109, Washington, D.C. : World Bank , 1990 . Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTH...

...Geeta Chowdhry Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1992 1992 Indian Women Their Health and Economic Productivity . By Meera Chatterjee . World Bank Discussion Papers, No. 109. Washington, D.C. : World Bank , 1990 . Gender and the Household Domain: Social...

...John L. McCreery Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1979 1979 Medicine in Chinese Cultures: Comparative Studies of Health Care in Chinese and Other Societies . Edited by Arthur Kleinman , Peter Kunstadter , E. Russell Alexander , and James L. Gale . Washington, D.C...

...Michael Kron Familiar Medicine: Everyday Health Knowledge and Practice in Today's Vietnam . By David Craig . Honolulu : University of Hawai Press , 2002 . xv, 287 pp. $55.00 (cloth). Copyright © Association for Asian Studies 2004 2004 548 T H E J O U R N A L O F A S I A N S T U D...

... of an enigma: a genius, to be sure, and one inspired by a kind of transcendental moral conviction, but an enigma nevertheless on account of how he conceived of morality as a problem in which Truth and biology were equally implicated. As he put it, “morals are closely linked with health. A perfectly moral...

...Robert van Niel Health Care in Java: Past and Present . Edited by Peter Boomgaard , Rosalita Sciortino , and Ines Smyth . Leiden : KITLV Press , 1996 . vi, 197 pp. $33–50 (paper). Distributed by Cellar Book Shop. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1997 1997...

...Robert Evans, Jr Making Health Work: Human Growth in Modern Japan . By Carl Mosk . Berkeley : University of California Press , 1996 . xxi, 156 pp. $45.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS JAPAN 543 in labor demand during...

...Carl A. Trocki Sickness and the State: Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870–1940 . By Lenore Manderson . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1996 . xix, 315 pp. $64.95. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1998 1998 BOOK REVIEWS SOUTHEAST ASIA 283...

...Tong Lam Hygienic Modernity: Meanings of Health and Disease in Treaty-Port China . By Ruth Rogaski . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2004 . xiv , 401 pp. $60.00 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009 Anyone who has...

...Hyaeweol Choi The Politics of Gender in Colonial Korea: Education, Labor, and Health, 1910–1945 . By Theodore Jun Yoo . Berkeley and Los Angeles : University of California Press , 2008 . xi , 316 pp. $49.95 (cloth). Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 2009 2009...

... of governance. Lin Yi-ping and Liu Shiyung revisit the public health campaigns against malaria in Taiwan, particularly Japanese efforts in the early twentieth century, and the war against mosquitoes in the 1950s and 1960s sponsored by America and the World Health Organization that involved island-wide DDT...

...Norman Uphoff Food, Health, and Survival in India and Developing Countries . By Stuart Gillespie and Geraldine McNeill . Delhi : Oxford University Press , 1992 . xiii, 216 pp. $24.00. Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1994 1994 254 THE JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES...