Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia

by Jan Ovesen and Ing-Britt Trankell

Book Overview

At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. At the same time, however, by using "medicine" (in the sense of ideas, practices, and institutions relating to health and illness) as a prism through which to view colonial and post-colonial Cambodian society more generally, it offers an historical and contemporary anthropology of the nation of Cambodia.

Rich in ethnographic detail derived from both contemporary...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 8776940586
• ISBN13: 9788776940584
• Release Date: April 2010
• Publisher: Nordic Institute of Asian Studies
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"