Cambodians and their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia Anthopology Asian Folklore Studies)

Asian Folklore Studies)

and stitches his huge canvas of events with literary flair

Slowing down and becoming aware of each physical movement

Khemachat (Khem Chutthong) grew up on the Mekong River in Nong Khai province of northeastern Thailand

just ordinary people working their way through life’s problems

Cambodians and their Doctors: A Medical Anthropology of Colonial and Post-Colonial Cambodia Anthopology Asian Folklore Studies)Jan Ovesen and Ing Britt Trankell July 2011, 316 (xv + 301) pp., 21 b w illus., 6 tables, Paperback, 15x23 cm 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