Laurence Monnais
Biographic Data
| ID | 114928 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Laurence Monnais |
| GIVEN NAMES | Laurence |
| FAMILY NAME | Monnais |
| SIGNATURE | MONNAIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9242-2056 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pandémie de rougeole, 1988-1992: Virus, vaccinations de masse et vulnérabilités contemporaines
Au tournant des années 1990, la rougeole a balayé le monde. Évitable par la vaccination depuis 1963, la ' première maladie ' est pourtant une des grandes absentes d'un siècle pandémique qui tarde à s'achever, si ce n'est pour en faire l'incarnation d'un anti-vaccinationisme rampant. Au travers d'une chronique de la ' crise ' de 1988-1992, nous reviendrons sur le processus decoproductionentre l'infection et les technologies qui en protègent. Nous …
Faire sans, faire avec moins: Les nouveaux horizons de l’innovation
Usage réduit d’antibiotiques, ville sans voiture, agriculture sans pesticides, basse consommation énergétique, menus sans viande, etc. Cette liste, allongeable à souhait, amène à un constat sans appel. Les réponses aux défis qui traversent nos sociétés passent de plus en plus par la réduction, voire le retrait de certaines substances, technologies ou artefacts qui sont au cœur de nos modes de vie et de production. Faire sans, faire avec moins, so…
Cop26: What is the message for public health?” Response from the Université de Montréal One Health initiative
The Reinvention of an Appropriate Tradition or the Colonial Birth of Vietnamese Medicine
This chapter examines the impact of colonialism on the “invention” of Vietnamese medicine (VM) in the first half of the twentieth century. It focuses more specifically on the legal framework dealing with VM in the interwar period, when Vietnamese nationalism was on the rise and French colonial authorities were assessing the “successes” and “failures” of the Assistance Médicale Indigène (AMI), the colonial health care system established in 1905. I…
Des poisons qui en disent long: Les fonctions de l’arsenal thérapeutique traditionnel du Viêtnam colonisé (1860-1954)
La colonisation du Viêtnam par la France intervient dans le cadre d’un synchronisme qui, au XIX e siècle, associe d’une part la domination-exploitation du pays et, d’autre part, la confirmation de la prééminence de la biomédecine dans les politiques de santé européennes et l’essor de l’industrie pharmaceutique occidentale. L’analyse des fonctions des remèdes traditionnels sino-vietnamiens devient alors un formidable outil de compréhension de la r…
H ans P ols . Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Any medical historian who gets to visit Jakarta, the current capital of the Republic of Indonesia, typically stops by the Museum Kebangkitan Nasional, the “Museum of National Awakening” dedicated to the early years of Indonesian nationalism. The museum is located in the buildings of the former Batavia School of Medicine, STOVIA (the School ter Opleiding van Inlandsche Artsen, or “School for the Training of Native Physicians”). This was where Boed…
Histoire de la santé, XVIIIe–XXe siècles: Nouvelles recherches francophones par Alexandre Klein, Séverine Parayre
Reviewed by: Histoire de la santé, XVIIIe–XXe siècles : Nouvelles recherches francophones par Alexandre Klein, Séverine Parayre Laurence Monnais Klein, Alexandre, et Séverine Parayre (dir.) – Histoire de la santé, XVIIIe–XXe siècles : Nouvelles recherches francophones. Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2015, xiv, 230 p. S’inscrivant dans l’effort soutenu du réseau Historiens de la santé pour promouvoir le développement d’une histoire de la s…
The Values of Versatility: Pharmacists, Plants, and Place in the French (Post)Colonial World
Colonial pharmacists bio-prospected, acclimatized, chemically screened, and tinkered with plants and their parts, hoping to create products to supply colonial public health care, metropolitan industries, and imperial markets. This article's approach is to examine the trajectories of expertise of two French colonial pharmacists, Franck Guichard and Joseph Kerharo, to illuminate the history of modern medicinal plant research. Both men studied medic…
Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia
The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, …
Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia
The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, …
Le Médecin du Prince: Voyage à Travers les Cultures (review)
Reviewed by: Le Médecin du Prince: Voyage à Travers les Cultures Laurence Monnais Anne-Marie Moulin. Le Médecin du Prince: Voyage à Travers les Cultures. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2010. 362 pp. €25.00 (978-2-7381-2446-3). Anne-Marie Moulin is without a doubt one of the best-known historians of science in France. Her work stands out for its richness and originality, especially since she never loses sight of the daily reality of the doctor, the disease, …
Loh Kah Seng, Making and Unmaking the Asylum. Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
The strong point of this slim volume lies in the author Loh Kah Seng's choice to ground his work in oral history, specifically some 20 interviews with former leprosy sufferers having been forcibly interned at the Singapore Leprosy Relief Association (Silra) Home or in the ‘Valley of Hope’ (Sungai Buloh, Kuala Lumpur). Given that such isolation facilities are currently being transformed into homes, and that the inmates are theoretically being rein…
Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères: La médecine privée dans le Viêt Nam colonial
Constituant une première histoire de la médecine libérale indigène dans le Viêt Nam sous domination française, cet article revient sur certains acquis historiographiques et propose de nouvelles avenues pour enrichir la recherche sur l’histoire de la santé en contexte colonial. Il s’interroge d’abord sur les conditions et les motifs qui ont permis l’existence de cette communauté médicale a priori marginale ; il en établit ensuite les principales c…
From Colonial Medicines to Global Pharmaceuticals? The Introduction of Sulfa Drugs in French Vietnam
In the decade between 1935 and 1945, the discovery and diffusion of sulfonamides, commonly known as sulfa drugs, new medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections, launched a true therapeutic revolution. Predating antibiotics, these “first miracle drugs” to quote the title of John Lesch's latest book (The First Miracle Drugs. How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine, OUP, 2007), met with huge successes in both civilian and military applic…
Comment l’analyse profane du risque peut-elle contribuer à l’avancement des savoirs en santé
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines by Warwick Anderson
Culture, immigration et santé: La consommation de médicaments chez les Vietnamiens de Montréal
Cet article propose une réflexion renouvelée sur la problématique « santé – immigration » à partir d’une recherche qualitative sur les pratiques de recours au médicament des Vietnamiens immigrés de Montréal (Canada) et leurs déterminants socioculturels. Notre étude confirme l’existence de pratiques de pluralisme médical au sein de cette communauté mais, surtout, met en lumière la complexité et la variabilité des formes que prend ce pluralisme. Au…
Le médicament au coeur de la socialité contemporaine
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Accessibility to Healthcare, Consumption of Medicines, and Medical Pluralism in French Vietnam, 1905––1945
This article presents the results of an investigation into the formation of patterns of recourse to pharmaceuticals in Vietnam during the first half of the twentieth century. By examining Vietnamese responses to the introduction of pharmaceuticals, this article contributes to a historicization of the "pharmaceutical invasion" of the South. It analyzes recourse to pharmaceuticals by situating therapeutic choices within the broader sociocultural, e…
The Values of Versatility: Pharmacists, Plants, and Place in the French (Post)Colonial World
Colonial pharmacists bio-prospected, acclimatized, chemically screened, and tinkered with plants and their parts, hoping to create products to supply colonial public health care, metropolitan industries, and imperial markets. This article's approach is to examine the trajectories of expertise of two French colonial pharmacists, Franck Guichard and Joseph Kerharo, to illuminate the history of modern medicinal plant research. Both men studied medic…
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Accessibility to Healthcare, Consumption of Medicines, and Medical Pluralism in French Vietnam, 1905––1945
This article presents the results of an investigation into the formation of patterns of recourse to pharmaceuticals in Vietnam during the first half of the twentieth century. By examining Vietnamese responses to the introduction of pharmaceuticals, this article contributes to a historicization of the "pharmaceutical invasion" of the South. It analyzes recourse to pharmaceuticals by situating therapeutic choices within the broader sociocultural, e…
Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia
The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, …
Culture, immigration et santé: La consommation de médicaments chez les Vietnamiens de Montréal
Cet article propose une réflexion renouvelée sur la problématique « santé – immigration » à partir d’une recherche qualitative sur les pratiques de recours au médicament des Vietnamiens immigrés de Montréal (Canada) et leurs déterminants socioculturels. Notre étude confirme l’existence de pratiques de pluralisme médical au sein de cette communauté mais, surtout, met en lumière la complexité et la variabilité des formes que prend ce pluralisme. Au…
Le médicament au coeur de la socialité contemporaine
The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals: Accessibility to Healthcare, Consumption of Medicines, and Medical Pluralism in French Vietnam, 1905––1945
This article presents the results of an investigation into the formation of patterns of recourse to pharmaceuticals in Vietnam during the first half of the twentieth century. By examining Vietnamese responses to the introduction of pharmaceuticals, this article contributes to a historicization of the "pharmaceutical invasion" of the South. It analyzes recourse to pharmaceuticals by situating therapeutic choices within the broader sociocultural, e…
Culture, immigration et santé: La consommation de médicaments chez les Vietnamiens de Montréal
Cet article propose une réflexion renouvelée sur la problématique « santé – immigration » à partir d’une recherche qualitative sur les pratiques de recours au médicament des Vietnamiens immigrés de Montréal (Canada) et leurs déterminants socioculturels. Notre étude confirme l’existence de pratiques de pluralisme médical au sein de cette communauté mais, surtout, met en lumière la complexité et la variabilité des formes que prend ce pluralisme. Au…
Comment l’analyse profane du risque peut-elle contribuer à l’avancement des savoirs en santé
Colonial Pathologies: American Tropical Medicine, Race, and Hygiene in the Philippines by Warwick Anderson
From Colonial Medicines to Global Pharmaceuticals? The Introduction of Sulfa Drugs in French Vietnam
In the decade between 1935 and 1945, the discovery and diffusion of sulfonamides, commonly known as sulfa drugs, new medicines capable of controlling bacterial infections, launched a true therapeutic revolution. Predating antibiotics, these “first miracle drugs” to quote the title of John Lesch's latest book (The First Miracle Drugs. How the Sulfa Drugs Transformed Medicine, OUP, 2007), met with huge successes in both civilian and military applic…
Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères: La médecine privée dans le Viêt Nam colonial
Constituant une première histoire de la médecine libérale indigène dans le Viêt Nam sous domination française, cet article revient sur certains acquis historiographiques et propose de nouvelles avenues pour enrichir la recherche sur l’histoire de la santé en contexte colonial. Il s’interroge d’abord sur les conditions et les motifs qui ont permis l’existence de cette communauté médicale a priori marginale ; il en établit ensuite les principales c…
Loh Kah Seng, Making and Unmaking the Asylum. Leprosy and Modernity in Singapore and Malaysia
The strong point of this slim volume lies in the author Loh Kah Seng's choice to ground his work in oral history, specifically some 20 interviews with former leprosy sufferers having been forcibly interned at the Singapore Leprosy Relief Association (Silra) Home or in the ‘Valley of Hope’ (Sungai Buloh, Kuala Lumpur). Given that such isolation facilities are currently being transformed into homes, and that the inmates are theoretically being rein…
Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia
The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, …
Le Médecin du Prince: Voyage à Travers les Cultures (review)
Reviewed by: Le Médecin du Prince: Voyage à Travers les Cultures Laurence Monnais Anne-Marie Moulin. Le Médecin du Prince: Voyage à Travers les Cultures. Paris: Odile Jacob, 2010. 362 pp. €25.00 (978-2-7381-2446-3). Anne-Marie Moulin is without a doubt one of the best-known historians of science in France. Her work stands out for its richness and originality, especially since she never loses sight of the daily reality of the doctor, the disease, …
Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia
The development of medicine in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries has not been a simple imposition of European scientific medicine, but a complex and negotiated process that drew on Southeast Asian health experts, local medical traditions, and changing national and popular expectations. The contributors to this volume show how the practices of health in Southeast Asia over the past two centuries were mediated by local medical traditions, …
The Values of Versatility: Pharmacists, Plants, and Place in the French (Post)Colonial World
Colonial pharmacists bio-prospected, acclimatized, chemically screened, and tinkered with plants and their parts, hoping to create products to supply colonial public health care, metropolitan industries, and imperial markets. This article's approach is to examine the trajectories of expertise of two French colonial pharmacists, Franck Guichard and Joseph Kerharo, to illuminate the history of modern medicinal plant research. Both men studied medic…
Histoire de la santé, XVIIIe–XXe siècles: Nouvelles recherches francophones par Alexandre Klein, Séverine Parayre
Reviewed by: Histoire de la santé, XVIIIe–XXe siècles : Nouvelles recherches francophones par Alexandre Klein, Séverine Parayre Laurence Monnais Klein, Alexandre, et Séverine Parayre (dir.) – Histoire de la santé, XVIIIe–XXe siècles : Nouvelles recherches francophones. Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2015, xiv, 230 p. S’inscrivant dans l’effort soutenu du réseau Historiens de la santé pour promouvoir le développement d’une histoire de la s…
Des poisons qui en disent long: Les fonctions de l’arsenal thérapeutique traditionnel du Viêtnam colonisé (1860-1954)
La colonisation du Viêtnam par la France intervient dans le cadre d’un synchronisme qui, au XIX e siècle, associe d’une part la domination-exploitation du pays et, d’autre part, la confirmation de la prééminence de la biomédecine dans les politiques de santé européennes et l’essor de l’industrie pharmaceutique occidentale. L’analyse des fonctions des remèdes traditionnels sino-vietnamiens devient alors un formidable outil de compréhension de la r…
H ans P ols . Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
Any medical historian who gets to visit Jakarta, the current capital of the Republic of Indonesia, typically stops by the Museum Kebangkitan Nasional, the “Museum of National Awakening” dedicated to the early years of Indonesian nationalism. The museum is located in the buildings of the former Batavia School of Medicine, STOVIA (the School ter Opleiding van Inlandsche Artsen, or “School for the Training of Native Physicians”). This was where Boed…
The Reinvention of an Appropriate Tradition or the Colonial Birth of Vietnamese Medicine
This chapter examines the impact of colonialism on the “invention” of Vietnamese medicine (VM) in the first half of the twentieth century. It focuses more specifically on the legal framework dealing with VM in the interwar period, when Vietnamese nationalism was on the rise and French colonial authorities were assessing the “successes” and “failures” of the Assistance Médicale Indigène (AMI), the colonial health care system established in 1905. I…
Faire sans, faire avec moins: Les nouveaux horizons de l’innovation
Usage réduit d’antibiotiques, ville sans voiture, agriculture sans pesticides, basse consommation énergétique, menus sans viande, etc. Cette liste, allongeable à souhait, amène à un constat sans appel. Les réponses aux défis qui traversent nos sociétés passent de plus en plus par la réduction, voire le retrait de certaines substances, technologies ou artefacts qui sont au cœur de nos modes de vie et de production. Faire sans, faire avec moins, so…
Cop26: What is the message for public health?” Response from the Université de Montréal One Health initiative
Pandémie de rougeole, 1988-1992: Virus, vaccinations de masse et vulnérabilités contemporaines
Au tournant des années 1990, la rougeole a balayé le monde. Évitable par la vaccination depuis 1963, la ' première maladie ' est pourtant une des grandes absentes d'un siècle pandémique qui tarde à s'achever, si ce n'est pour en faire l'incarnation d'un anti-vaccinationisme rampant. Au travers d'une chronique de la ' crise ' de 1988-1992, nous reviendrons sur le processus decoproductionentre l'infection et les technologies qui en protègent. Nous …
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