Organizer: The Center for Khmer Studies

Description:

Drawing from qualitative insights gathered during anthropological in-person data collection during February 2020 to late March 2020, this talk explores the different relationalities and rationalities expressed by groups living in Siem Reap Province regarding preventing or treating COVID-19 symptoms with either biomedicine, traditional, and/or folk medicine. It considers the localized designations, hierarchies, and priorities of which individual, or combination, of medical systems are best suited to handle illnesses overall, as well as during health crises like the COVID-19 pandemic. It provides a glimpse into how the medical pluralism of the Cambodian healthcare landscape manifests in individual care-seeking and health decisions, and considers how these tensions can be mobilized to expand care as opposed to generating further divisions.

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