Book ID: CBB001250397

Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia (2011)

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Au, Sokhieng (Author)


University of Chicago Press


Publication Date: 2011
Physical Details: viii + 263 pp.; bibl.; index; ill.
Language: English

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.

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Review Vivek Neelakantan (2013) Review of "Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia". Global Public Health (pp. 636-637). unapi

Review Edington, Claire (2013) Review of "Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 694-697). unapi

Review Aso, Mitch (2012) Review of "Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 600-601). unapi

Review Osborne, Michael A. (2012) Review of "Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia". French History (pp. 414-415). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Tuszewicki, Marek
Wallis, Jennifer
Scales, Rebecca P.
Rosenberg, Charles E.
Pols, Hans
Parsons, Chris
Concepts
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
France, colonies
Medicine
Colonialism
Health
Public understanding of medicine
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
20th century, late
18th century
21st century
Places
Vietnam
Indochina
Egypt
India
Algeria
Istanbul (Turkey)
Institutions
Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadéro
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