At the EuroSEAS 2022 conference held at the L’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris, one panel was directly related to this project: Medical Business at the Close of the Colonial Era.
This panel sought to broadly illustrate some elements of business involvement in this shifting health-scape in Southeast Asia immediately before WWII, during the war, or in the immediate postwar period.
Papers from three project members were included in the panel:
Takashi Sakata, “Japanese Army distribution plans for Indonesian quinine resources, 1940-1942”;
Mayumi Yamamoto, “Rises and Falls of Japanese Insecticide Business in mid-20th Century Indonesia”;
William Bradley Horton, “Medicines and Advertisements in Indonesia, 1930s to the post-war era.”
These panelists were joined by Meta Sekar Puji Astuti and Sandra Khor Manickam, as well as a number of other conference goers for an interesting, active panel.
https://euroseas2022.org/panels/medical-business-at-the-close-of-the-colonial-era
