Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-239) and index.
Contents
Settings -- Collusions and conflict -- The politics and pragmatics of managing health -- Social medicine -- Prostitutes and mothers -- Civilized lepers -- Cultural insolubilities.
Summary
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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