Vivek Neelakantan
Biographic Data
| ID | 729099 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vivek Neelakantan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vivek |
| FAMILY NAME | Neelakantan |
| SIGNATURE | NEELAKANTAN V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Center for Southeast Asian Studies |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0294-0592 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937-1978
Implementing a Global Health Programme
Beyond Medicine
“Healthy People, Strong Nation”
The ILO’s Health Mandate in Newly Decolonizing Asia, 1947–1978
Conclusion
Coming to Terms with the Cold War
Reconciling Barefoot Aspirations and Cold War Realities
Between Modernization and Marginalization
This article examines the population health policies implemented in Semarang City, Indonesia, in the aftermath of the Dutch colonial Ethical Policy (1901). Employing a social determinant of health framework grounded in a decolonial perspective, the study explores how colonial era policies continue to shape contemporary health practices and reinforce structural health inequalities. Drawing on historical methods and analysis of primary and secondar…
Remembering Socrates Litsios
Mridula Ramanna, Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920
Journal Article Mridula Ramanna, Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities Get access Mridula Ramanna, Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2024. Pp. 343. INR 1400. Hbk. ISBN 9789358522051. Vivek Neelakantan Vivek Neelakantan Independent Southeast Asian Medical Historian, 2023 Brocher Foundation Fellow, Hermance, Switzerland vivekneelaka…
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942
Journal Article Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942 Get access Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. x + 243. $20.99. Pbk. ISBN 978-1-017-6683-1. Vivek Neelakantan Vivek Neelakantan Fondaton Brocher [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad037, …
Uncertainty and Managing Randomness
Between 1817 and 1821, the Indian subcontinent was devastated by a series of cholera outbreaks that have subsequently been referred to as the beginning of the First Cholera Pandemic. Although the history of the First Cholera Pandemic has received some scholarly attention, historians tend to overlook the local features of the pandemic in favor of the broader colonial context. In this article, the author contends that the official response to the e…
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia
Between 1983 and 2006 there were two distinct sorts of historical writings on Southeast Asian medical history, with quite different emphases. Some historians focused on the history of medicine in national contexts—a practice that resulted in the neglect of larger socioeconomic factors such as migration—that affected the trajectory of pandemics. At the same time, pursuing a different line of thinking, another group of historians focused on the his…
“No Nation Can Go Forward When It Is Crippled by Disease”
This article outlines a notion of postcolonial Philippine science. First, it touches on the links between science, medicine, the Cold War, and nation building. Second, it examines the niche occupied by applied sciences, particularly nutrition, agriculture, and medicine, in nation building. Between 1946 and 1965, Philippine presidents understood science functionally, in terms of harnessing the country’s natural resources for economic development; …
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality
Masuhara Ayako. The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia
The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia: Golkar and the Transformation of the Suharto RegimeMasuhara AyakoKyoto: Kyoto University Press; Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2015, xviii+286p.In the revised version of her doctoral dissertation, Ayako Masuhara offers a fine-grained analysis of the collapse of President Suharto's New Order (1965-98). The author brings out the paradox that despite Suharto enjoying political patronage from the ruling Golkar …
From international to global
T he publication of Medicine at the border is relevant from the perspective of how we as citizens manage our health and are managed by local, national, regional and supra-national institutions looking to preserve global safety and health. The volume collectively shows how the history of infectious disease is central to the political, legal, and commercial history of nationalism, colonialism, and internationalism. The chapters are thematically org…
Mixed medicines
Recollecting Jakarta's Social and Medical History
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Mixed medicines
Recollecting Jakarta's Social and Medical History
Masuhara Ayako. The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia
The End of Personal Rule in Indonesia: Golkar and the Transformation of the Suharto RegimeMasuhara AyakoKyoto: Kyoto University Press; Melbourne: Trans Pacific Press, 2015, xviii+286p.In the revised version of her doctoral dissertation, Ayako Masuhara offers a fine-grained analysis of the collapse of President Suharto's New Order (1965-98). The author brings out the paradox that despite Suharto enjoying political patronage from the ruling Golkar …
From international to global
T he publication of Medicine at the border is relevant from the perspective of how we as citizens manage our health and are managed by local, national, regional and supra-national institutions looking to preserve global safety and health. The volume collectively shows how the history of infectious disease is central to the political, legal, and commercial history of nationalism, colonialism, and internationalism. The chapters are thematically org…
Uncertainty, Anxiety, Frugality
“No Nation Can Go Forward When It Is Crippled by Disease”
This article outlines a notion of postcolonial Philippine science. First, it touches on the links between science, medicine, the Cold War, and nation building. Second, it examines the niche occupied by applied sciences, particularly nutrition, agriculture, and medicine, in nation building. Between 1946 and 1965, Philippine presidents understood science functionally, in terms of harnessing the country’s natural resources for economic development; …
Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942
Journal Article Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942 Get access Maurits Bastiaan Meerwijk, A History of Plague in Java, 1911-1942, Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2022. Pp. x + 243. $20.99. Pbk. ISBN 978-1-017-6683-1. Vivek Neelakantan Vivek Neelakantan Fondaton Brocher [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social History of Medicine, hkad037, …
Uncertainty and Managing Randomness
Between 1817 and 1821, the Indian subcontinent was devastated by a series of cholera outbreaks that have subsequently been referred to as the beginning of the First Cholera Pandemic. Although the history of the First Cholera Pandemic has received some scholarly attention, historians tend to overlook the local features of the pandemic in favor of the broader colonial context. In this article, the author contends that the official response to the e…
History of Pandemics in Southeast Asia
Between 1983 and 2006 there were two distinct sorts of historical writings on Southeast Asian medical history, with quite different emphases. Some historians focused on the history of medicine in national contexts—a practice that resulted in the neglect of larger socioeconomic factors such as migration—that affected the trajectory of pandemics. At the same time, pursuing a different line of thinking, another group of historians focused on the his…
Remembering Socrates Litsios
Mridula Ramanna, Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920
Journal Article Mridula Ramanna, Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities Get access Mridula Ramanna, Bombay Presidency, 1850–1920: Disease, Sanitation and Public Health Personalities, New Delhi: Primus Books, 2024. Pp. 343. INR 1400. Hbk. ISBN 9789358522051. Vivek Neelakantan Vivek Neelakantan Independent Southeast Asian Medical Historian, 2023 Brocher Foundation Fellow, Hermance, Switzerland vivekneelaka…
Between Modernization and Marginalization
This article examines the population health policies implemented in Semarang City, Indonesia, in the aftermath of the Dutch colonial Ethical Policy (1901). Employing a social determinant of health framework grounded in a decolonial perspective, the study explores how colonial era policies continue to shape contemporary health practices and reinforce structural health inequalities. Drawing on historical methods and analysis of primary and secondar…
The Emergence of International Health Policy in Southeast Asia, India, and Sri Lanka, 1937-1978
Implementing a Global Health Programme
Beyond Medicine
“Healthy People, Strong Nation”
The ILO’s Health Mandate in Newly Decolonizing Asia, 1947–1978
Conclusion
Coming to Terms with the Cold War
Reconciling Barefoot Aspirations and Cold War Realities
Politics (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Colonialism (6 works) · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices (6 works) · Law (6 works) · History (5 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Public health (5 works) · Ancient history (4 works)