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Cambodian Medicine: Part 1 (Khmer Medical Culture (Disorder breeds disease…
Cambodian Medicine: Part 1
Colonial Biomedicine
Biomedicine tends to ignore multiple other problems in disease other than the biological
"Indigenization of Biomedicine'
Biomedicine is not identical everywhere
Khmer Medical Culture
Disorder breeds disease according to spirits and ancestors distaste
Khmer healers allow patient to take part in healing ritual (can be social)
French attempts at introducing Western medicine failed due to unwillingness to be compatible with Khmer medicine
General health of population relatively worse than neighboring countries
French involvement in Cambodia
La Mission Civilisatrice
"Improve" upon the general population using overseas investments
Moral value of educating populace, but also hidden effort to order the populace
Eventually led to
le mise en valeur
- the restructuring of infrastructure and the populace
French colonial medicine a means of "cleaning up" when things got messy on colonial front lines
Limited resource of farmhands for helping exports led to medicine being prioritized
Ethnicity in Cambodia
Gaining status as a Khmer could be possible by a member of another race through adoption of language and habitus
French stereotyped Khmer as "docile, kind but lazy" and Vietnamese as "organized and efficient"