Southern Medicine for Southern People
Title | Southern Medicine for Southern People PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Monnais |
Publisher | Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | 320 |
Release | 2011-11-15 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 1443835358 |
What is a national medicine? What does it mean for a medicine to be traditional and scientific at the same time? How could a specifically Vietnamese medicine emerge out of the medical practices and treatments that have flourished and waned during key socio-cultural encounters in Vietnam? This book answers these questions by examining the making of Vietnamese medicine from a historical and contemporary perspective. Ever since its fourteenth century emergence out of the traditions and practices of the much more globally celebrated Chinese medicine, Vietnamese medicine has been engaged in a constant effort to define, guard and more recently, revive itself. In this collection of empirically-rich chapters, international scholars specialising in history, sociology, anthropology and medicine show how this process has played out through very much ongoing North-South and West-East encounters. Vietnamese medicine is practiced, produced and consumed in contexts of medical pluralism and globalisation, not only within Vietnam, but increasingly also among the Vietnamese diaspora around the world. Its development and modernisation cannot be detached from Vietnam’s tumultuous and tragic quest for independence. The compass points that saturate every chapter in this volume suggest that the making of Vietnamese medicine has been as much related to post-colonial national identity formation as it has to national efforts to address the health problems of the Vietnamese people.
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Title | Vietnamese Traditional Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | C. Michele Thompson |
Publisher | NUS Press |
Total Pages | 202 |
Release | 2015-06-30 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 9971698358 |
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detailed historical and linguistic research restores agency and voice to practitioners of Vietnamese medicine, showing how the adoption of Chinese and then Western ideas of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries relied on indigenous Vietnamese concepts of health and the human body. She mines medical manuscripts in Chinese and in Nom (vernacular Vietnamese) to capture various aspects of the historical interaction between Chinese and Vietnamese thought. She presents a detailed analysis of the Vietnamese response to a Chinese medical technique for preventing smallpox, and to the medical concepts associated with it, looking at Vietnamese healers from a variety of social classes. Thompson's account brings together colorful historical vignettes, contemporary observations and interviews, and textual analysis. It stands out as a demonstration of the power of the history of medicine to illuminate adjacent fields of enquiry. It will be of interest to historians of medicine globally and in East Asia, as well as to students of Vietnam and its complex process of modernization.
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Title | Vietnamese Traditional Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 282 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Folk medicine |
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Traditional Vietnamese Medicine
Title | Traditional Vietnamese Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Michelle Tram |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 56 |
Release | 2019-08-16 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781686363191 |
Traditional Vietnamese Medicine is a short informational guide to common Vietnamese medicine practices. Whether you are a healthcare professional or layperson, this guide is for you. Traditional Vietnamese Medicine will give you a new or enhanced perspective of traditional medicine through easy-to-understand explanations of various practices of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine (TVM), including wind scraping, cupping, and acupuncture. Each practice is described in regards to its overview and history, beliefs regarding its health benefits, and any potential health risks. This book has been written to spread more information to the general population, ultimately hoping to improve communication and understanding between patients and their healthcare practitioners.
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
Title | Vietnamese Traditional Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | Viện y học cỏ̂ truyè̂n Việt Nam |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 316 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Medicine, Oriental |
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Familiar Medicine
Title | Familiar Medicine PDF eBook |
Author | David Craig |
Publisher | University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | 326 |
Release | 2002-06-30 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9780824824747 |
One of the first medical ethnographies to be written on contemporary Vietnam, Familiar Medicine examines the practical ways in which people of the Red River Delta make sense of their bodies, illness, and medicine. Traditional knowledge and practices have persisted but are now expressed through and alongside global medical knowledge and commodities. Western medicine has been eagerly adopted and incorporated into everyday life in Vietnam, but not entirely on its own terms. Familiar Medicine takes a conjectural, interdisciplinary approach to its subject, weaving together history, ethnography, cultural geography, and survey materials to provide a rich and readable account of local practices in the context of an increasingly globalized world and growing microbial resistance to antibiotics. Theoretically, it draws on current critical and cultural theory (in particular applying Pierre Bourdieu's work on habitus and practical logics) in innovative but approachable ways. David Craig addresses a range of contemporary fascinations in medical anthropology and the sociology of health and illness: from the trafficking of medical commodities and ideas under globalization to the hybridization of local cultural formations, knowledge, and practices. His book will be required reading for international workers in health and development in Vietnam and a rich resource for courses in cultural geography, anthropology, medical sociology, regional studies, and public and international health.
Health and Cultural Change
Title | Health and Cultural Change PDF eBook |
Author | Hendry Ton |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 452 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | |
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