Book contents
- Nurturing Indonesia
- Global Health Histories
- Maps
- Nurturing Indonesia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Medical Institutions
- A Note on Spelling, Pronunciation, and Names
- Introduction: Colonial Dreams, National Awakenings, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations
- 1 Abdul Rivai: Medicine and the Enticement of Modernity
- 2 The Enchantment of Cosmopolitan Science: Student Life at the Dutch East Indies Medical Colleges
- 3 The Indies Youth Movements: Progress, Westernisation, and Cultural Pride
- 4 Professional Aspirations and Colonial Ambivalence: The Association of Indies Physicians
- 5 The Insults of Colonial Psychiatry and the Psychological Damage of Colonialism
- 6 The Great Depression: Rockefeller Initiatives and Medical Nationalism
- 7 Indonesian Physicians in the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
- 8 Medical Heroism and the Indonesian Revolution
- 9 Medicine in Independent Indonesia: National Physicians and International Health
- Conclusion: The Rise and Decline of the National Physician
- Bibliography
- Index
Introduction: Colonial Dreams, National Awakenings, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 14 August 2018
Book contents
- Nurturing Indonesia
- Global Health Histories
- Maps
- Nurturing Indonesia
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgements
- Medical Institutions
- A Note on Spelling, Pronunciation, and Names
- Introduction: Colonial Dreams, National Awakenings, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations
- 1 Abdul Rivai: Medicine and the Enticement of Modernity
- 2 The Enchantment of Cosmopolitan Science: Student Life at the Dutch East Indies Medical Colleges
- 3 The Indies Youth Movements: Progress, Westernisation, and Cultural Pride
- 4 Professional Aspirations and Colonial Ambivalence: The Association of Indies Physicians
- 5 The Insults of Colonial Psychiatry and the Psychological Damage of Colonialism
- 6 The Great Depression: Rockefeller Initiatives and Medical Nationalism
- 7 Indonesian Physicians in the Greater East-Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
- 8 Medical Heroism and the Indonesian Revolution
- 9 Medicine in Independent Indonesia: National Physicians and International Health
- Conclusion: The Rise and Decline of the National Physician
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
On 20 May 1908, a group of medical students at the Batavia Medical College founded Boedi Oetomo (Noble Endeavour), an association that advocated access to modern education for all Javanese. Boedi Oetomo is now widely viewed as Indonesia’s first nationalist organisation as many Indonesians view the former medical college as a place where a new form of political awareness emerged. The medical students who founded Boedi Oetomo were recipients of the most advanced form of education available in the Indies. They advocated to bring education, progress, and the fruits of modern science, technology, and medicine to Java and then to the archipelago. Today, the building of the Batavia Medical College houses the Museum of National Awakening to commemorate the founding of Boedi Oetomo and the political engagement of Indonesian physicians and medical students during the colonial era.
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- Nurturing IndonesiaMedicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies, pp. 1 - 20Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018