This book concerns the development of institutional medicine,
medical practice and health care during the initial colonisation
and later colonial rule of Papua New Guinea. It discusses the
relationship between public health and the medical profession and
colonial bureaucracy, and also analyses the profession's social and
technical ideas which determined the kinds of health policies and
programmes attempted. The first part describes the era of tropical
medicine which predominated at the turn of the century and survived
until the 1950s. The second part investigates the transformation of
tropical medicine by the introduction of new drugs and the curative
campaigns of the 1950s and 1960s, and thereafter discusses the
emergence of a new medical strategy known as 'primary health care'.
This original, comparative study will be of value not only to
anthropologists and historians of tropical medicine but also to
historians of colonialism and its effects on public health care.
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