Download or read book Childbirth, Maternity, and Medical Pluralism in French Colonial Vietnam, 1880-1945 written by Thuy Linh Nguyen (Historian) and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2016 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the complex interactions between French medicine and Vietnamese childbirth traditions, documenting the emergence of a plural system of maternity services that incorporated both biomedical knowledge and local birthing traditions.