Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères
This paper constitutes the first account on the history of Vietnamese private medical practice during the French domination over Indochina. It aims to revisit multiple historiographies and at the same time to suggest new ways of writing the history of colonial health and health care. First, I analys...
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| description | This paper constitutes the first account on the history of Vietnamese private medical practice during the French domination over Indochina. It aims to revisit multiple historiographies and at the same time to suggest new ways of writing the history of colonial health and health care. First, I analyse the legal and political context in which Vietnamese private doctors could emerge as a professional and as a social group. Then I insist on the main characteristics of this medical community in terms of training, professional life and scientific and social activities. These Vietnamese doctors would appear as active agents and inventive experts who were to participate actively to the improvement of indigenous health. In order to better understand the activities of the group and their outcomes the paper will focus on one practitioner in particular, Dr. Nguyễn Văn Luyện (1898-1946). Luyện’s biography helps to reveal Vietnamese doctors’ polyvalence, expertise and dynamism both in terms of public health involvement and individual care ; in doing so one may be able to demonstrate that this new community of experts got in tune with the Vietnamese urban society it was supposed to care for, a society experiencing growing political, economic and social change at the time, especially during the interwar period. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e05b30cb89d8489f85fbc27032d620fa2022-12-21T18:28:05ZengUniversité de ProvenceMoussons1620-32242262-83632010-10-0115759510.4000/moussons.281Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrèresLaurence MonnaisThis paper constitutes the first account on the history of Vietnamese private medical practice during the French domination over Indochina. It aims to revisit multiple historiographies and at the same time to suggest new ways of writing the history of colonial health and health care. First, I analyse the legal and political context in which Vietnamese private doctors could emerge as a professional and as a social group. Then I insist on the main characteristics of this medical community in terms of training, professional life and scientific and social activities. These Vietnamese doctors would appear as active agents and inventive experts who were to participate actively to the improvement of indigenous health. In order to better understand the activities of the group and their outcomes the paper will focus on one practitioner in particular, Dr. Nguyễn Văn Luyện (1898-1946). Luyện’s biography helps to reveal Vietnamese doctors’ polyvalence, expertise and dynamism both in terms of public health involvement and individual care ; in doing so one may be able to demonstrate that this new community of experts got in tune with the Vietnamese urban society it was supposed to care for, a society experiencing growing political, economic and social change at the time, especially during the interwar period.http://journals.openedition.org/moussons/281colonialismmedicalizationprivate medicinecolonized doctorsNguyễn Văn LuyệnVietnam |
| spellingShingle | Laurence Monnais Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères Moussons colonialism medicalization private medicine colonized doctors Nguyễn Văn Luyện Vietnam |
| title | Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères |
| title_full | Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères |
| title_fullStr | Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères |
| title_full_unstemmed | Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères |
| title_short | Le Dr Nguyễn Văn Luyện et ses confrères |
| title_sort | le dr nguyen van luyen et ses confreres |
| topic | colonialism medicalization private medicine colonized doctors Nguyễn Văn Luyện Vietnam |
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