This collection of essays is a selection of papers presented in the 2006 First International Conference on the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia. Authors include experts in the history of medicine, global health care, and sociology, including students and educators from Southeast Asia. Chapters examine the Real Expedición de la Vacuna, the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Board in Southeast Asia, 19th century midwifery in the Philippines, the intersection of traditional and modern medicine, opium in colonial Malaya, cholera and race in Hanoi, HIV/AIDS and medicine in Thailand, the biopoliticization of herbal medicine in Vietnam, and medicine and public health in Thai historiography. Tables and figures are found in chapters five, seven, and nine, and a bibliography, and list of contributors are included. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)