Mixed Medicines

图书信息

作者	Au, Sokhieng
出版社	University of Chicago Press
ISBN	9780226031651
出版时间	2012-07-24
字数	59.1万
分类	University of Chicago Press,进口书,外文原版书,文学,自传,回忆录

读书简介

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.

目录

Cover

Copyright

Title Page

Contents

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Introduction

ONE / Settings

TWO / Collusions and Conflict

THREE / The Politics and Pragmatics of Managing Health

FOUR / Social Medicine

FIVE / Prostitutes and Mothers

SIX / Civilized Lepers

SEVEN / Cultural Insolubilities

Notes

Glossary

Sources

Index