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Author Ovesen, Jan, 1945-2016

Title Cambodians and their doctors : a medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia / Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell
Published Copenhagen : NIAS Press, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 301 pages) : illustrations, map
Series NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. Monograph series ; 117
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies monograph series ; no. 117.
Contents Colonialism and medicine in Indochina -- French medicine in Cambodia -- The Khmer Rouge medical regime and socialist health -- Indigenous practitioners : healers, spirit mediums and magic monks -- Midwives and the medicalization of motherhood -- Leprosy : symbol and social suffering -- Contemporary healthcare resources
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-295) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Medical anthropology -- Cambodia
Public health -- Anthropological aspects -- Cambodia
Medicine -- Cambodia -- French influences
Traditional medicine -- Cambodia
Medical care -- Cambodia -- History -- 20th century
Delivery of Health Care -- history
Health Services -- history
History, 20th Century
Medicine, Traditional
Public Health Practice -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues.
Medical anthropology
Medical care
Medicine -- French influences
Public health -- Anthropological aspects
Social conditions
Traditional medicine
Ethnomedizin
Naturheilkunde
Geistheiler
Biomedizin
Medizinische Versorgung
Khmer
SUBJECT Cambodia -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Cambodia https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002160
Subject Cambodia
Cambodge
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Trankell, Ing-Britt.
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
ISBN 9788776945794
8776945790
Other Titles Medical anthropology of colonial and postcolonial Cambodia