Mixed Medicines
Subtitle: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780226031637
Subjects: Public health; Cambodia, history
Description: 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.