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The colonial life of pharmaceuticals : medicines and modernity in Vietnam / Laurence Monnais ; translated by Noemi Tousignant.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Series: Publisher: Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]Description: 280p. ; cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781108474665 (hardback)
Uniform titles:
  • Médicaments coloniaux. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 615.109597  23 M748
Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Making Medicines Modern, Making Medicines Colonial; 2. Medicines in Colonial (Public) Health; 3. The Mirage of Mass Distribution: State Quinine and Essential Medicines; 4. The Many Lives of Medicines in the Private Market; 5. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Transactions and Transgressions in the Therapeutic Market; 6. Learning Effects: Lived Experiences, Pharmaceutical Publicity and the Roots of Selective Demand; 7. Medicines as Vectors of Modernization and Medicalization; 8. Therapeutic Pluralism Under Colonial Rule; Conclusion: From Colonial Medicines to Post-Colonial Health.
Summary: "Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia and of medical pluralism, this book traces the "life of pharmaceuticals" in Vietnam under French rule. By focusing on the circulation and consumption of colonial medicines from the last third of the nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, it addresses neglected, and sometimes surprising, facets of the medicalization of Vietnamese society. By colonial medicines, I mean not only medicines introduced and distributed by the colonizers, but also, importantly, medicines that were generated within and (re)defined by the process, and experience, of colonization. This book covers a period during which pharmaceuticals as we now know them were being defined, when their characteristics became stabilized and their modalities of distribution were tightened"--Provided by publisher.
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كتاب كتاب Central Library المكتبة المركزية 615.109597 M748 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available قاعة الكتب

"This edition is a revised, expanded and updated translation of Medicaments coloniaux. L'experience vietnamienne, 1905-1940 (Paris: Les Indes savants, 2014)"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1. Making Medicines Modern, Making Medicines Colonial; 2. Medicines in Colonial (Public) Health; 3. The Mirage of Mass Distribution: State Quinine and Essential Medicines; 4. The Many Lives of Medicines in the Private Market; 5. Crimes and Misdemeanors: Transactions and Transgressions in the Therapeutic Market; 6. Learning Effects: Lived Experiences, Pharmaceutical Publicity and the Roots of Selective Demand; 7. Medicines as Vectors of Modernization and Medicalization; 8. Therapeutic Pluralism Under Colonial Rule; Conclusion: From Colonial Medicines to Post-Colonial Health.

"Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of modern Southeast Asia and of medical pluralism, this book traces the "life of pharmaceuticals" in Vietnam under French rule. By focusing on the circulation and consumption of colonial medicines from the last third of the nineteenth century to the eve of World War II, it addresses neglected, and sometimes surprising, facets of the medicalization of Vietnamese society. By colonial medicines, I mean not only medicines introduced and distributed by the colonizers, but also, importantly, medicines that were generated within and (re)defined by the process, and experience, of colonization. This book covers a period during which pharmaceuticals as we now know them were being defined, when their characteristics became stabilized and their modalities of distribution were tightened"--Provided by publisher.