His interest in the history, sociology, and anthropology of medicine has led him to publish numbers of books and articles pertaining to the history of medicine and psychiatry in Southeast Asia. Some of his prominent works include “Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia” (2017), “Tending to the Nation: Medicine, Nationalism and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies, 1900-1950” (2018), and “Building Southeast Asian Psychiatric Expertise: Site Visits, Scientific Journeys, and Medical Exchanges between French Indochina and the Dutch East Indies, 1898-1937” (2016).