Public Health in Papua New Guinea: Medical Possibility and Social Constraint, 1884-1984 Book

Acknowledgements; maps of Papua New Guinea; Introduction;

Part I. The Rise and Fall of Tropical Medicine:

1. Pre-colonial health and disease;
2. The administration of public health;
3. Early colonial medical administration;
4. The political economy of health in Papua between the wars;
5. The political economy of health in New Guinea between the wars;
6. Medical education;
7. The Pacific War: the condition of the people;

Part II. The Rise and Fall of the Great Campaigns:
8. Miracle drugs, new perceptions and the post-war Public Health Department;
9. The health campaigns;
10. Women and children last;
11. Health education;
12. A national health system;
13. Primary health care;
14. The past and the future; Notes; Bibliography; Index.