Book contents
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Global Health Histories
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Making Medicines Modern, Making Medicines Colonial
- 2 Medicines in Colonial (Public) Health
- 3 The Mirage of Mass Distribution: State Quinine and Essential Medicines
- 4 The Many Lives of Medicines in the Private Market
- 5 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Transactions and Transgressions in the Therapeutic Market
- 6 Learning Effects: Lived Experiences, Pharmaceutical Publicity, and the Roots of Selective Demand
- 7 Medicines as Vectors of Modernization and Medicalization
- 8 Therapeutic Pluralism under Colonial Rule
- Conclusion: From Colonial Medicines to Postcolonial Health
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The Many Lives of Medicines in the Private Market
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 August 2019
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Global Health Histories
- The Colonial Life of Pharmaceuticals
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Making Medicines Modern, Making Medicines Colonial
- 2 Medicines in Colonial (Public) Health
- 3 The Mirage of Mass Distribution: State Quinine and Essential Medicines
- 4 The Many Lives of Medicines in the Private Market
- 5 Crimes and Misdemeanors: Transactions and Transgressions in the Therapeutic Market
- 6 Learning Effects: Lived Experiences, Pharmaceutical Publicity, and the Roots of Selective Demand
- 7 Medicines as Vectors of Modernization and Medicalization
- 8 Therapeutic Pluralism under Colonial Rule
- Conclusion: From Colonial Medicines to Postcolonial Health
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Despite the limits of the public system, it seems to have stimulated, according to some reports, a growing and indeed avid demand for pharmaceuticals. AMI distributions of medicines occasionally turned into riots. There are also reports of regular drug thefts from the stocks carried by nurses traveling to remote villages. In some regions, QE was sold so quickly it was hard to maintain stocks, and some distributors sought to stimulate sales by selling it by the tablet instead of the tube. An even more striking sign of the popularity of pharmaceuticals is the significant number of drugs that appear to have circulated in Vietnam only outside the AMI.
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- The Colonial Life of PharmaceuticalsMedicines and Modernity in Vietnam, pp. 116 - 146Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2019