South and Southeast Asia: Report on a Round-the-World Trip, 1950 with Special Attention to Political Affairs as Discussed at the Lucknow Conference

1952 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 534-534
Author(s):  
A. S. B. Olver
2021 ◽  

In this volume, prominent anthropologists, public health physicians, and psychiatrists respond sympathetically but critically to the Movement for Global Mental Health (MGMH), which seeks to export psychiatry throughout the world. They question some of its fundamental assumptions: the idea that "mental disorders" can clearly be identified; that they are primarily of biological origin; that the world is currently facing an "epidemic" of them; that the most appropriate treatments for them normally involve psycho-pharmaceutical drugs; and that local or indigenous therapies are of little interest or importance for treating them. Instead, the contributors argue that labeling mental suffering as "illness" or "disorder" is often highly problematic; that the countries of South and Southeast Asia have abundant, though non- psychiatric, resources for dealing with it; that its causes are often social and biographical; and that many non-pharmacological therapies are effective for dealing with it. In short, they advocate a thoroughgoing mental health pluralism.


2009 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
R. Liemberger

One of the major challenges facing water utilities around the world but especially in Low and Middle Income Countries (LAMIC) is the high level of water losses either through physical losses (leakage) or commercial losses (customer meter under-registration and theft of water in various forms). This difference between the amount of water put into the distribution system and the amount of water billed to consumers is known as “Non-Revenue Water” (NRW). Levels of NRW in South and Southeast Asia are among the highest in the world. This paper will give an update of the general NRW situation in the various countries and the ongoing remediation measures.


Author(s):  
Stephen Davies

In the godowns, shipping offices, chandleries and dockyards a medley of voice did business in a multiplicity of languages and dialects. The goods they handled, shipped in from all over the world, represented as many ways of seeing and being, eating and dressing, living and dying. Yet there were disconnections as well as connections in this interface of interfaces. This chapter describes how the colonial government set apart seamen of different ethnic backgrounds by issuing different sets of regulations for seamen’s boarding houses according to whether they were lascars (Indians, Malays and others from South and Southeast Asia), Chinese or Westerners. Deepening the divides was the strong native-place and dialect-basis principle under which Chinese boarding houses were organized, indicating a certain degree of segregation among the Chinese themselves. The separateness is also shown in the different church missions, which ministered to seamen according to their ethnic origins.


2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 150-152
Author(s):  
Tauseef Ahmad Parray

A New Introduction to Islam is an excellent undergraduate textbook presentinga thorough history of Islam. It introduces students to the historyand development of Islamic studies as a discipline—showing how Islamicstudies has shaped our understanding of Islam—and it also examineshow the vibrant religious culture of the Near East produced a unique andbrilliant intellectual and religious tradition spanning the fields of Islamiclaw, theology, philosophy, and mysticism. In addition, it shows the waysin which the Islamic tradition has enriched the world, and in turn, how ithas been enriched by interaction with other civilizations. And against thebackground of social and cultural contexts that extend from North Africato South and Southeast Asia, it also considers the opportunities and challengesfacing Muslims today and provides a new and illuminating perspectiveof the development of Muslim beliefs and practices ...


2022 ◽  

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected the world to varying degrees. Moreover, different regions of the world have tried to combat the disease in a variety of ways. Since the beginning of the pandemic in Wuhan, China, the world has been looking in particular at South and Southeast Asia, where great successes were initially achieved in 2020. In 2021, however, the situation there has dramatically worsened. The book seeks explanations for this and tries to show how the different successes in combating the pandemic have affected international relations and the internal stability of the affected countries.


2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 216-224

All the religions of the world are based on the fundamental principles of good conduct and prohibit their followers from indulging in the misconduct and misbehavior that may harm the society at large. However, nothing appears without its root. India is famous for her heritage of philosophy and culture having got a deep system of thoughts, beautiful values and profound influences on other countries. The paper mentions the concept of Panca-sila, the origins and some of its influences on India and Southeast Asia. The paper has four parts: 1. The concept of Panca-sila in the Upanishadic ideas; 2. The connectivity of Panca-sila with Buddha; 3. The Panchsheel Treaty by Jawaharlal Nehru; and 4. Panca-sila in Sukarno’ philosophy. Received 22nd June 2018; Revised 2nd April 2019; Accepted 14th April 2019


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