Liping Bu is Reid-Knox Chair Professor and Chair of the History Department at Alma College, USA.

• Introduction 1. "Taking Our Own Road:" Building the People’s Health in Socialist China 2. Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of Paragonimiasis Eradication 3. Towards Economic Growth: The Development of Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961–1988 4. Health Insurance Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the Introduction of Universal Health Care 5. Foreign Aid, Virus Research and Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962 6. Indonesian Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998

Liping Bu is Reid-Knox Chair Professor and Chair of the History Department at Alma College, USA.

• Introduction 1. "Taking Our Own Road:" Building the People’s Health in Socialist China 2. Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of Paragonimiasis Eradication 3. Towards Economic Growth: The Development of Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961–1988 4. Health Insurance Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the Introduction of Universal Health Care 5. Foreign Aid, Virus Research and Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962 6. Indonesian Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998

Liping Bu is Reid-Knox Chair Professor and Chair of the History Department at Alma College, USA.

• Introduction 1. "Taking Our Own Road:" Building the People’s Health in Socialist China 2. Public Health as an Ideology for Socialistic Transformation of the Environment in North Korea, 1945-1961: The Case of Paragonimiasis Eradication 3. Towards Economic Growth: The Development of Public Health Activities in South Korea from 1961–1988 4. Health Insurance Policy and Its Stakeholders in Japan during the Cold War: Toward the Introduction of Universal Health Care 5. Foreign Aid, Virus Research and Preventive Medicine in India during the Cold War: 1950-1962 6. Indonesian Health Policy Between the Old and the New Orders, 1949-1998