Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies

Cover
Half-title
Series information
Maps
Title page
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of figures
Acknowledgements
Medical Institutions
A Note on Spelling, Pronunciation, and Names
Introduction: Colonial Dreams, National Awakenings, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations
	Medicine and the Ethical Policy
	Medicine, Politics, Nationalism, and Decolonisation
	Chapter Overview
1 Abdul Rivai: Medicine and the Enticement of Modernity
	Legal Codes and Social Aspirations
	Abdul Rivai: Dreams and Aspirations
	Sleepless Nights: Articulating a Political Program
	A Rude Awakening: Rivai’s Return to the Indies
	The First Generation of Indies Physicians with Dutch Medical Degrees
	Conclusion
2 The Enchantment of Cosmopolitan Science: Student Life at the Dutch East Indies Medical Colleges
	Medical Education in the Dutch East Indies
	Student Life
	Teachers and Role Models
	Esprit de corps
	Medical Politics and Nationalist Sentiment
	Conclusion
3 The Indies Youth Movements: Progress, Westernisation, and Cultural Pride
	The First Year of Boedi Oetomo
	Tjipto Mangoenkoesoemo, the Unification of the Indies, and the Call for Independence
	Western Civilisation and Its Discontents
	The Indies Youth Associations
	Young Java
	Young Sumatra
	Minahasa Student Association
	Conclusion
4 Professional Aspirations and Colonial Ambivalence: The Association of Indies Physicians
	A Medical Perspective on the Indigenous Population
	The Report on the Reorganisation of the Colonial Medical Service
	The Association of Native Physicians
	The Protest of the Union of (European) Physicians
	Indies Physicians and Political Activism
	Conclusion
5 The Insults of Colonial Psychiatry and the Psychological Damage of Colonialism
	Colonial Psychiatry and Theories on the Nature of the Native Mind
	Travaglino’s Psychological Colonial Politics
	Van Loon on the Mental Characteristics of the Malay
	Indies Physicians Protest
	Non-Cooperation
	Non-Cooperation in the Indies
	The Association of Indies Physicians and Science
	Conclusion
6 The Great Depression: Rockefeller Initiatives and Medical Nationalism
	The Opening of the Batavia Medical School
	The Rockefeller Foundation Comes to the Dutch East Indies
	Abdul Rasjid: Adat Enthusiast and Advocate of Medical Nationalism
	Abdul Rasjid and the Association of Indonesian Physicians
	Conclusion
7 Indonesian Physicians in the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
	The Japanese Conquest of the Dutch East Indies
	Re-establishing Medical Care during the Japanese Occupation
	Discontent among Medical Students
	Health Conditions during the Japanese Period
	Towards the Declaration of Indonesian Independence
	Conclusion
8 Medical Heroism and the Indonesian Revolution
	The Declaration of Independence, Dutch Neo-Colonialism, and the Indonesian Revolution
	Dutch Physicians on the Indonesian Revolution
	Taking Sides: Indonesian Physicians during the Revolution
	The Dutch Military Campaigns, 1947–1948
	The Dispersal of Medical Talent during the Indonesian Revolution
	Conclusion
9 Medicine in Independent Indonesia: National Physicians and International Health
	Health in Sukarno’s Indonesia: Plans and Ambitions
	Health under Suharto: Building a National Health Infrastructure
	Conclusion
Conclusion: The Rise and Decline of the National Physician
	The Decline of Indonesia’s National Physician
Bibliography
	Archives Consulted
	Newspapers and Periodicals Consulted
	Primary Sources
	Secondary Sources
Index