Josef Rösch, An Interventional Radiology Odyssey: The Story of My Life and Work (Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing, 2016), pp. 101, €72.79, hardback and e-book, ISBN: 9783319338187.

TLDR: Monnais shows herself a worthy successor to these historians in her study of la médecine entre les savoirs and the pouvoirs, in reference to Léonard's work, well worth the wait.

Abstract: Indochina’ was devoted to the history of medicine in colonial South-East Asia. On numerous occasions she presents cases taken from non-western contexts. If the core of the argument devoted to modern western medicine gives great importance to transatlantic states and relations, multiple examples are chosen from non-western countries to balance and question medicalization processes through the history of alternative medicine. A very good, short and informative introduction heads each chapter, thanks to a ‘histoireproblème’ often based on sociological and anthropological literature (e.g. in Ch. 6 with Didier Fassin on lead poisoning). For the English-speaking audience, which has till now often relied on references to Foucault and Latour, the book might well be a way to grasp the reception of Foucauldian studies by French-speaking historians, in the footsteps of Jacques Léonard. Arguably the first historian of medicine in France and the author of one of the best comment on Foucault’s oeuvre,5 Léonard has directly and indirectly influenced various historians such as Olivier Faure or Alain Corbin (who have developed their different take on his legacy from the history of the medical power to the history of the body and of emotion). Monnais shows herself a worthy successor to these historians in her study of la médecine entre les savoirs et les pouvoirs, in reference to Léonard’s work.6 This book was long time coming according to the author’s admission in the introduction but it is well worth the wait.