Mixed Medicines
Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
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Word Count
70,000 words, Guess
Page Count
280 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-139780226031637
- ISBN-100226031632
- Library of Congress Control Number2010029463
- OCLC Control Number647977789
- Better World Books9780226031637
and 1 more
- Open LibraryOL28464368M
Classifications
- LCCRA407.5.C16A93 2011
- LCCRA407.5.C16 A93 2011
Description
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.
Description
Bringing together historical vignettes, anthropological theory and quantitative analyses, this book examines interactions between the Khymer, Cham, and Vietnamese of Cambodia and the French, documenting the differences in their understandings of medicine and revealing the transformations that occured.
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- Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
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