Translating the body : medical education in Southeast Asia / edited by Hans Pols, C. Michele Thompson & John Harley Warner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pols, Hans, editor.

Thompson, Claudia Michele, editor.

Warner, John Harley, 1953- editor.

Series:

History of medicine in Southeast Asia series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine--Southeast Asia--History.

Traditional medicine.

Medicine, Chinese--Southeast Asia--History.

Medicine, Chinese.

History.

Southeast Asia.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xi, 370 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Medical education in Southeast Asia

Place of Publication:

Singapore : NUS Press, National University of Singapore, [2017]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Western conceptions of the body differ significantly from indigenous knowledge and explanatory frameworks in Asia. As colonial governments assumed responsibility for health care, conceptions of the human body were translated into local languages and related to vernacular views of health, disease, and healing. The contributors to this volume chart and analyze the organization of western medical education in Southeast Asia, public health education in the region, and the response of practitioners of "traditional medicine". "Translating the body" is a shorthand for the formulation of medical ideas, practices, and epistemologies in context that requires both interpretation and transmission. The process is both linguistic and cultural, and in approaching medical education, the book follows recent work in translation studies that underscores the translation not merely of words but of cultures. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Nel Stokvis-Cohen Stuart (1881-1964) and Her Role in Educating Female Nurses and Midwives in the Dutch East Indies / Liesbeth Hesselink Hesselink, Liesbeth 38

2 Trouble with "Status": Competing Models of British and North American Public Health Nursing Education and Practice in British Malaya / Rosemary Wall Wall, Rosemary, Anne Marie Rafferty Rafferty, Anne Marie 67

3 Cattle for the Colony: Veterinary Science and Animal Breeding in Colonial Indochina / Annick Guénel Guénel, Annick 95

4 Women's Health in Laos: From Colonial Times to the Present / Kathryn Sweet Sweet, Kathryn 116

5 Learning to Heal the People: Socialist Medicine and Education in Vietnam, 1945-54 / Michitake Aso Aso, Michitake 146

6 The Expansion and Transformation of Medical Education in Indonesia During the 1950s in Jakarta and Surabaya / Vivek Neelakantan Neelakantan, Vivek 173

7 "Cambodian Pathology": Imagining Modern Biomedicine in the Cambodian-Soviet Medical Journal, Revue Médico-Chirurgicale de l'Hôpital de l'Amitié Khméro-Soviétique (1961-71) / Jenna Grant Grant, Jenna 194

8 Epidemics, Empire, and Education: Contested Discourses on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Philippines / Francis A. Gealogo Gealogo, Francis A. 230

9 Medical Education "from Below": Self-medication, Medical Pluralism, and Therapeutic Citizenship in Colonial Vietnam / Laurence Monnais Monnais, Laurence 250

10 The Invention of Medical Tradition in Thailand: Thai Traditional Medicine and Thai Massage / Jimko Iida Iida, Jimko 273

11 Honoring the Teachers, Constructing the Lineage: A Wai Khru Ritual among Healers in Chiang Mai, Thailand / C. Pierce Salguero Salguero, C. Pierce 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical referecnes (pages 319-344) and index.

ISBN:

9789814722056

9814722057

OCLC:

966601101