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Genre/Form: | History |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sokhieng Au |
ISBN: | 9780226031637 0226031632 9780226031644 0226031640 |
OCLC Number: | 727106569 |
Description: | viii, 263 p. : ill. ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Settings -- Collusions and conflict -- The politics and pragmatics of managing health -- Social medicine -- Prostitutes and mothers -- Civilized lepers -- Cultural insolubilities. |
Responsibility: | Sokhieng Au. |
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Bringing together colorful historical vignettes, social and anthropological theory, and quantitative analyses, this title examines these interactions between the Khmer, Cham, and Vietnamese of Cambodia and the French, documenting the differences in their understandings of medicine.
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"Mixed Medicines is just the sort of book that the field of colonial medicine has been clamoring for. It offers much more than a study of the imposition of French colonial medicine on the Khmer people of Cambodia; it show us why people 'mix' health care practices in ways that make sense to them but baffle others. This brilliant book will inform scholars and policymakers alike." (Ken Alder, Northwestern University)" Read more...

