Familiar medicine : everyday health knowledge and practice in today's Vietnam / David Craig.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Craig, David, 1961-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Traditional medicine--Vietnam--Red River Delta.

Traditional medicine.

Ethnobotany--Vietnam--Red River Delta.

Ethnobotany.

Materia medica--Vietnam--Red River Delta.

Materia medica.

Public health--Vietnam--Red River Delta.

Public health.

Globalization.

Red River Delta (Vietnam)--Social life and customs.

Red River Delta (Vietnam).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaii Press, c2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acronyms and Abbreviations

Preface

1. Place

2. North, South, East, and West: Cultural Formations of Vietnamese Medicine

3. An Ethnography of Health and Illness in Northern Vietnam

4. Traditional Household Medicine

5. Familiar Medicine: Antibiotics in Market and Culture

6. The Patterning of Medical Choices

7. Local and Global Pharmacy Governance: The King's Law Stops at the Village Gate?

Notes

Glossary

References

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-280) and index.

ISBN:

9780824862473

0824862473

9780585463568

0585463565

OCLC:

614672888