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Cambodians and Their Doctors Pdf

Cambodians and Their Doctors
Author: Jan Ovesen
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 8776940586

At face value, this book is about medicine in Cambodia over the last hundred years. Download Cambodians and Their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia (Nias Monographs) from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. 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 anthropological fieldwork and colonial archival material, the study is an account of the simultaneous presence in Cambodia of two medical traditions: the modern, biomedical one first introduced by the French colonial power at the turn of the twentieth century, and the indigenous Khmer health cosmology. Search and find a lot of medical books in many category availabe for free download. Cambodians and Their Doctors medical books pdf for free. 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



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