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The colonial life of pharmaceuticals : medicines and modernity in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais ; translated by Noemi 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):
- Drugs--Indochina--History.
- Drugs.
- Drugs--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Medicine--Political aspects--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Medicine.
- Colonization--Health aspects--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Colonization.
- Public health--Vietnam--History--20th century.
- Public health.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English and French.
- Summary:
- Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of medicine and health traces the life of pharmaceuticals in Vietnam under French rule. Laurence Monnais examines the globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context. She argues that colonialism was crucial to the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines and speaks to contemporary concerns regarding over-reliance on pharmaceuticals, drug toxicity, self-medication, and the accessibility of effective medicines. Retracing the steps by which pharmaceuticals were produced and distributed, readers meet the many players in the process, from colonial doctors to private pharmacists, from consumers to various drug traders and healers. Yet this is not primarily a history of medicines as objects of colonial science, but rather a history of medicines as tools of social change.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Aug 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-316-99795-2
- 1-108-62047-7
- 1-108-56715-0
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