Healers, doctors and the search for a middle ground: examining the perceptions of traditional Malay medicine in Singapore during the 1950s and 1960s

• Main Author: Ahmad Hasif Mohammad Amran
• Other Authors: Faizah Binte Zakaria
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165362
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This thesis explores the perceptions of traditional Malay medicine in Singapore during the 1950s. Through a cultural analysis of films and interviews with practitioners, clients, and eyewitnesses. It argues that the increasing presence of biomedicine in the lives of the Malay community had shaped th...