The Intellectual Odyssey of a French Colonial Physician
Jules Regnault and Far Eastern Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8940068 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Evelyn Bernette Ackerman (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1996 |
| Volume | 19 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 1083-1083 |
| Publication date | 1996-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | French Historical Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-1071 • E-ISSN: 1527-5493 |
| Publisher | JSTOR (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/286665 |
| OpenAlex | W2323115766 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
I came to be interested inJules Regnault by a circuitous route. About eight years ago, I was simultaneously revising a book on the attitudes of French peasants toward medical care and helping a Cambodian student improve her English. Sometimes, my student would describe what her mother did for her when she was sick back home near Battambang before the arrival of the Khmer Rouge. Some of the remedies she described a camphor-based medicine, for example sounded similar to what the nineteenth-century French peasants I was studying at the time used. Other procedures-employing a coin to scrape bad elements off the skin of the arm-sounded completely different. I wondered about the French presence in Indochina after the 1860s and what kinds of medical transmissions might have taken place. Did French doctors affect Indochinese thinking about health and the body? How did French physicians deal with the medical beliefs of the people they found in Indochina? As I read the rapidly growing literature on tropical medicine and articles and field documents written by French physicians who served in Indochina between the early 1860s and the First World War, I realized the difficulties of analyzing popular reactions to the French medi
Affect (linguistics · Archaeology · Colonialism · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Psychology
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2010 - 2024 (15) |
| Highly cited | No |