Laurence Monnais

The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Innovative examination of the early globalization of the pharmaceutical industry, arguing that colonialism was crucial to the worldwide diffusion of modern medicines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 292
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. August 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 579g
• ISBN-13: 9781108474665
• ISBN-10: 1108474667
• Artikelnr.: 55559684

Autorenporträt

Laurence Monnais is Professor of History and Director of the Center for Asian Studies (CETASE) at Université de Montréal. She specializes in the history of medicine in Southeast Asia, global histories of health and the history of alternative medicines. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, she is also co-founder and president of History of Medicine in Southeast Asia (HOMSEA).

Inhaltsangabe

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.