TY - BOOK ID - 136666771 TI - Mixed medicines PY - 2011 SN - 1283066122 9786613066121 0226031659 9780226031651 9781283066129 6613066125 9780226031637 0226031632 9780226031644 0226031640 PB - Chicago London DB - UniCat KW - Public health KW - History. KW - Cambodia KW - History KW - french colonialism, colonization, france, cambodia, culture, cultural studies, history of medicine, medical care, southeast asia, interdisciplinary, disease, gender and sexuality, international public health, 20th century, western, colony, misunderstanding, failure, anthropology, sociology, khmer, cham, vietnamese, indigenous peoples, conflict, prostitutes, mothers, feminism, feminist theory. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:136666771 AB - 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. ER -