Inclusion/exclusion: representation of the Vietnamese in French colonial medical discourse
| dc.contributor.author | Iverson, Lara J. | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2009-09-09T19:27:27Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2009-09-09T19:27:27Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2004 | |
| dc.description.abstract | Similar to other agencies of colonial expansion, medicine permeated multiple political and sociological layers-at home and abroad-during the creation of the French colonial empire. Within the volumes of medical discourse, representation of the Vietnamese served as a barometer for metropolitan politics, reflecting the constantly changing French self-perception during the turbulent decades from the beginning of World War I to the defeat at Dien Bien Phu. Medical texts, as a forum for 'valid' scientific research, codified the tensions between alterity and 'normalcy' within colonial thought, presenting the dissected 'Other' to an eager public. The bodies of their indochinois subjects were a tableau in which not only the political insecurities of France could be etched, but also served to assuage fears about the French place in the 'order of things.' | |
| dc.description.degree | M.A. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10125/11453 | |
| dc.language | eng | |
| dc.publisher | University of Hawaii at Manoa | |
| dc.relation | Theses for the degree of Master of Arts (University of Hawaii at Manoa). Asian Studies; no. 3143 | |
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| dc.subject | Racism in medicine--History | |
| dc.title | Inclusion/exclusion: representation of the Vietnamese in French colonial medical discourse | |
| dc.type | Thesis | |
| dc.type.dcmi | Text | |
| dcterms.spatial | Vietnam |