Review of 'Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies' - New Mandala

Review of 'Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies' - New Mandala: Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies (Cambridge University Press, 2018) Hans Pols’ book offers fresh perspectives on the history of Indonesian nationalism and the sociopolitical role of medicine in the colonial context of the Netherlands East Indies. The book asks a deceptively simple question: why were doctors and medical students such prominent...