The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Medicines and Modernity in Vietnam (Global Health Histories)
Cambridge University Press, 8/22/2019
EAN 9781108474665, ISBN10: 1108474667
Hardcover, 290 pages, 23.7 x 16.5 x 1.8 cm
Language: English
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.
1. Making medicines modern, making medicines colonial
2. Medicines in colonial (public) health
3. The mirage of mass distribution
state Quinine and essential medicines
4. The many lives of medicines in the private market
5. Crimes and misdemeanors
transactions and transgressions in the therapeutic market
6. Learning effects
lived experiences, pharmaceutical publicity and the roots of selective demand
7. Medicines as vectors of modernization and medicalization
8. Therapeutic pluralism under colonial rule
Conclusion
from colonial medicines to post-colonial health.