I am a medical historian and specialize in Southeast Asia. I have been working for over 15 years on the development of health policy and practices from the 19^th century to the present, with a particular focus in recent years on the multiple "encounters" between Western (biomedicine) and so-called alternative and traditional forms of medicine. I am a determined advocate of a multidisciplinary, transnational approach, and recently developed projects and published on medications as a social object, immigrants' health practices and the identity of Vietnamese medicine.

I have held the Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Pluralism since 2007, and I work to improve our understanding of changes in health indicators in modern societies, over-medication and rejection of vaccination, as well as the enthusiasm for alternative medicine - all behaviours that are giving rise to increasing concern but also to different interpretations, which deserve to be revisited and examined from a historical perspective.

Member of the Centre d'études de l'Asie de l'Est (www.cetase.umontreal.ca), Laurence Monnais (PhD, University Paris 7) holds the Canada Research Chair in Healthcare Pluralism. She's also a researcher at the MEOS (she studies medication as a social object) and at the Research Institute of Public Health of UdeM (IRSPUM). Vice-president of the History of Medicine in Southeast Asia Centre (HOMSEA), she promotes research on the history of medicine in the southeastern region of Asia.

Publications principales

• (2016), Médecine(s) et santé. Une petite histoire globale, 19^e-20^e siècles, Montréal : Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 265p.
• Avec David Wright (2016) (Eds.)Doctors beyond Borders. The Transnational Migration of Physicians in the Twentieth Century, Toronto: Toronto University Press, 284p.
• (2014) Médicaments coloniaux. L’expérience vietnamienne, 1905-40, Paris : Les Indes Savantes, 370p.
• Avec Harold J. Cook (Eds.) (2012), Global Movements, Local Concerns: Medicine and Health in Southeast Asia, Singapore: NUS Press, 290p.
• Avec C-Michele Thompson et Ayo Wahlberg (Eds.) (2012), Vietnamese Medicine in the Making. Southern Medicine for Southern People, Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 291p.
• (2007), (Ed.) “Southeast Asia” dans William F. Bynum et Helen Bynum (Dir.) Dictionary of Medical Biography, Westport: Greenwood Press, 5 vol., 1616p.
• Avec Johanne Collin et Marcelo Otero (Dir.) (2006), Le médicament au coeur de la socialité contemporaine. Regards croisés sur un objet complexe, Sainte Foy: Presses de l'Université du Québec, 300p.
• (1999), Médecine et colonisation. L'aventure indochinoise, 1860-1939, Paris: CNRS Editions, 456p.