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Sokhieng Au Southeast Asia/Medicine Office: University Hall 025 |
| Sokhieng Au (PhD U.C. Berkeley) wrote a dissertation entitled "Medicine and Modernity in Colonial Cambodia" which dealt with the interface between French medicine and indigenous society in colonial Cambodia. Her general concern is to understand the ways medical practices and epistemologies relate with social practices and epistemologies. She is also interested in effacing the "colonial" in colonial medicine, by examining the many cosmopolitan entanglements of medicine practiced in the colony. Further, she seeks to understand the layers of interpretation that attend medical theory and practice in different political, class, and ethnic contexts. She examines these relationships by comparative studies of medicine and culture both within indigenous Southeast Asian societies, and between indigenous societies and colonial powers in the 19th and 20th centuries. | |
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