Singapore's battle against hepatitis B in the late twentieth century

• Main Author: Chionh, Lynn
• Other Authors: Park Hyung Wook
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History::Asia::Singapore::Social aspects
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165377
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

In the late twentieth century, hepatitis B was viewed as a shameful cultural disease due to its longstanding association with backwardness. Current literature that espouse the above often see the disease in a vacuum. Hepatitis B, much like other infectious diseases, must be understood in the social...