Mixed medicines : health and culture in French colonial Cambodia / Sokhieng Au.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Au, Sokhieng.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public health--Cambodia--History.

Public health.

Cambodia--History--1863-1953.

Cambodia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (275 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

During the first half of the twentieth century, representatives of the French colonial health services actively strove to expand the practice of Western medicine in the frontier colony of Cambodia. But as the French physicians ventured beyond their colonial enclaves, they found themselves negotiating with the plurality of Cambodian cultural practices relating to health and disease. These negotiations were marked by some success, a great deal of misunderstanding, and much failure. Bringing together colorful historical vignettes, social and anthropological theory, and quantitative analyses, Mixed Medicines examines these interactions between the Khmer, Cham, and Vietnamese of Cambodia and the French, documenting the differences in their understandings of medicine and revealing the unexpected transformations that occurred during this period-for both the French and the indigenous population.

Contents:

Settings

Collusions and conflict

The politics and pragmatics of managing health

Social medicine

Prostitutes and mothers

Civilized lepers

Cultural insolubilities.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613066121

9781283066129

1283066122

9780226031651

0226031659

OCLC:

712016228