Mixed Medicines: Health and Culture in French Colonial Cambodia

by Edna Lewis and Sokhieng Au

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226031632
• ISBN13: 9780226031637
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.1"