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The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals - Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Hardcover)
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The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals - Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Hardcover)
Series: Global Health Histories
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Situated at the crossroads between the history of colonialism, of
modern Southeast Asia, and of medical pluralism, this history of
medicine and health traces the life of pharmaceuticals in Vietnam
under French rule. Laurence Monnais examines the globalization of
the pharmaceutical industry, looking at both circulation and
consumption, considering access to drugs and the existence of
multiple therapeutic options in a colonial context. She argues that
colonialism was crucial to the worldwide diffusion of modern
medicines and speaks to contemporary concerns regarding
over-reliance on pharmaceuticals, drug toxicity, self-medication,
and the accessibility of effective medicines. Retracing the steps
by which pharmaceuticals were produced and distributed, readers
meet the many players in the process, from colonial doctors to
private pharmacists, from consumers to various drug traders and
healers. Yet this is not primarily a history of medicines as
objects of colonial science, but rather a history of medicines as
tools of social change.
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