Fiche du document
2000
Copyright PERSEE 2003-2023. Works reproduced on the PERSEE website are protected by the general rules of the Code of Intellectual Property. For strictly private, scientific or teaching purposes excluding all commercial use, reproduction and communication to the public of this document is permitted on condition that its origin and copyright are clearly mentionned.
Citer ce document
Soizick Crochet, « L'invisible guérison : Notes d'ethnomédecine en milieu rural au Cambodge », Aséanie, Sciences humaines en Asie du Sud-Est, ID : 10.3406/asean.2000.1662
Métriques
Partage / Export
Résumé
Three types of medical systems can be identified in Cambodia : the western biomedical sector, either public or private ; the traditional practice, recorded on manuscripts, of a group of mainly male specialists, the kru Khmer ; and the folk methods, combining herbal, ritual and increasingly pharmaceutical components, that women use daily for their families. While the international aid agencies tend to adopt a more positive view of the traditional practionners, women's knowledge about care is widely ignored or even condemned by the professional sector. Yet they are the first health providers in a country plagued by extremely high morbidity incidences and a low utilization rate of the official facilities. While asserting that this contempt for domestic care evolves from a gender-biased evaluation of knowledge, this paper attempts to show why female domestic methods of healing deserve more attention and respect.