Laurence Monnais

Johanne Collin

Marcelo Otero

Le recours croissant aux médicaments psychotropes est-il le reflet d'une société de plus en plus fragile au niveau psychique, de plus en plus encline à développer des dépendances, ou encore très sensible au puissant discours sur la prévention et les risques sanitaires?

Regards Croisés Sur un Objet Complexe

Le Médicament Au Coeur de la Socialité Contemporaine

Innovative examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, arguing that colonialism was crucial to the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines.

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals

Ayo Wahlberg

C. Michele Thompson

What is a national medicine? What does it mean for a medicine to be traditional and scientific at the same time? How could a specifically Vietnamese medicine emerge out of the medical practices and treatments that have flourished and waned during key socio-cultural encounters in Vietnam? This book answers these questions by examining the making of Vietnamese medicine from a historical and contemporary perspective. Ever since its fourteenth century emergence out of the traditions and practices of the much more globally celebrated Chinese medicine, Vietnamese medicine has been engaged in a constant effort to define, guard and more recently, revive itself. In this collection of empirically-rich chapters, international scholars specialising in history, sociology, anthropology and medicine show how this process has played out through very much ongoing North-South and West-East encounters. Vietnamese medicine is practiced, produced and consumed in contexts of medical pluralism and globalisation, not only within Vietnam, but increasingly also among the Vietnamese diaspora around the world. Its development and modernisation cannot be detached from Vietnam’s tumultuous and tragic quest for independence. The compass points that saturate every chapter in this volume suggest that the making of Vietnamese medicine has been as much related to post-colonial national identity formation as it has to national efforts to address the health problems of the Vietnamese people.

Vietnamese Medicine in the Making

Southern Medicine for Southern People

David Wright

Doctors beyond Borders provides an essential historical perspective on the transnational migration of health care practitioners.

Laurence Monnais

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