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The colonial life of pharmaceuticals : medicines and modernity in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais ; translated by Noémi Tousignant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Monnais-Rousselot, Laurence, author.
- Series:
- Global health histories (Series)
- Global health histories
- Standardized Title:
- Médicaments coloniaux. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmacology--Vietnam--History.
- Pharmacology.
- Pharmaceutical industry--Vietnam--History.
- Pharmaceutical industry.
- Colonies.
- History.
- France--Colonies--Asia--History.
- France.
- Vietnam--History--1858-1945.
- Vietnam.
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--history.
- Drug Therapy--history.
- Colonialism--history.
- Social Change--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Asia.
- Medical Subjects:
- Pharmaceutical Preparations--history.
- Drug Therapy--history.
- Colonialism--history.
- Social Change--history.
- History, 19th Century.
- History, 20th Century.
- Vietnam.
- France.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 280 pages.)
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Making medicines modern, making medicines colonial
- Medicines in colonial (public) health
- The mirage of mass distribution : state quinine and essential medicines
- The many lives of medicines in the private market
- Crimes and misdemeanors : transactions and transgressions in the therapeutic market
- Learning effects : lived experiences, pharmaceutical publicity, and the roots of selective demand
- Medicines as vectors of modernization and medicalization
- Therapeutic pluralism under colonial rule
- Conclusion : from colonial medicines to postcolonial health.
- Notes:
- "This edition is a revised, expanded and updated translation of Médicaments coloniaux. L'expérience vietnamienne, 1905-1940 (Paris: Les Indes savants, 2014)."
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward Potts Cheyney Memorial Fund.
- Other Format:
- Ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781108620475
- 1108620477
- Publisher Number:
- 99985881044
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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