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Author Au, Sokhieng.

Title Mixed medicines : health and culture in French colonial Cambodia / Sokhieng Au.

Publication Info. Chicago ; London : University of Chicago Press, 2011.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 263 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series NBER-Conference Report
NBER conference report.
Bibliography 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.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Public health -- Cambodia -- History.
Public health.
Cambodia.
History.
Cambodia -- History -- 1863-1953.
Chronological Term 1863-1953
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Added Title Health and culture in French colonial Cambodia
Other Form: Print version: Au, Sokhieng. Mixed medicines. Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2011 9780226031637 (DLC) 2010029463 (OCoLC)647977789
ISBN 9780226031651 (electronic book)
0226031659 (electronic book)
1283066122
9781283066129
9780226031637
0226031632
9780226031644
0226031640