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AbstractColonial 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 medicinal plants as part of their colonial duties, yet their interests in indigenous therapies exceeded and outlived colonial projects. We take this "overflow" as our point of departure to explore how science transformed medicinal plant values in French colonial and postcolonial contexts. Our focus is on the relationship between value and space—on the processes of conceptual and material (de-/re-)localization through which plant value is calculated, intensified, and distributed. We study and compare these processes in French Indochina and French West Africa where Guichard and Kerharo, respectively, engaged in them most intensively. We show that their engagements with matter, value, knowledge, and mobility defy easy categorizations of medicinal plant science as either extractive or neo-traditionalist. By eschewing simple equations of scientists' motivations with political projects and knowledge-production, we argue that approaching plant medicine through trajectories of expertise opens up grounds for finer analyses of how colonial power and projects, and their legacies, shaped scientific activity.

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, economic, and political dynamics underlying the accessibility of healthcare. As a result, this article exposes the limits of colonial medicalization while also revealing the agency of the Vietnamese people in critically assessing and selectively pursuing available therapeutic options.

Half title, title and copyright page -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: The Real Expedicion de la Vacuna and the Philippines, 1803-1807 -- Chapter 2: The Nguyen Initiative to Acquire Vaccinia, 1820-1821 -- Chapter 3: Wats and Worms: The Activities of the Rockefeller Foundation's International Health Board in Southeast Asia (1913-1940) -- Chapter 4: The 1937 Bandung Conference on Rural Hygiene: Toward a New Vision of Healthcare? -- Chapter 5: Science, Sex, and Superstition: Midwifery in 19th-Century Philippines -- Chapter 6: Dokter Djawa and Dukun: Perceptions of Indigenous Western-Trained Doctors about Traditional Healers in the Dutch East Indies around 1900 -- Chapter 7: Torn between Economics, Public Health and Chinese Nationalism: The Anti-Opium Campaign of Colonial Malaya, c. 1890s-1941 -- Chapter 8: Hanoi in the Time of Cholera: Epidemic Disease and Racial Power in the Colonial City -- Chapter 9: HIV/AIDS Epidemic and the Politics of Access to Medicines in Thailand: A Study of the Health Impact of Globalization -- Chapter 10: A Revolutionary Movement to Bring Traditional Medicine Back to the Grassroots Level: On the Biopolitization of Herbal Medicine in Vietnam -- Chapter 11: Medicine and Public Health in Thai Historiography: From an Elitist View to Counter_Hegemonic Discourse -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.