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

  • Monnais-Rousselot, Laurence
Date:
[2019]
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Médicaments coloniaux. English

Description

"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.

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]

Physical description

x, 280 pages ; 24 cm

Notes

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

Contents

Introduction -- Making medicines modern, making medicines colonial -- Medicines in colonial (public) health -- The mirage of mass distribution : state quinine and essential medicines -- The many lives of medicines in the private market -- Crimes and misdemeanors : transactions and transgressions in the therapeutic market -- Learning effects : lived experiences, pharmaceutical publicity, and the roots of selective demand -- Medicines as vectors of modernization and medicalization -- Therapeutic pluralism under colonial rule -- Conclusion : from colonial medicines to postcolonial health.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-276) and index.

Language note

Translated from the French.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    IH.UM.2282
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ISBN

  • 9781108474665
  • 1108474667
  • 9781108620475
  • 1108620477