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Naming the local : medicine, language, and identity in Korea since the fifteenth century / Soyoung Suh.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Suh, Soyoung, author.
- Series:
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 404.
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 404
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Traditional medicine--Korea--History.
- Traditional medicine.
- Medicine--Korea--History.
- Medicine.
- Language and medicine--Korea--History.
- Language and medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages )
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Asia Center, [2017]
- Summary:
- Examines the role of "locality" in medical innovations in Korea by tracing the origins of five key medical terms. Emerging within specific moments from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries, each term represents both the aspirations and limitations of registering the local in the existing configuration of Korean medicine.-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Local botanicals, or hyangyak: the correct name of herb and self
- Eastern medicine, or tongui: imagining a place for medical innovation
- Choson Koreans: the colonial identification of the local
- Lifesaving water: managing the indigenous for medical advertisements
- Fire illness, or hwabyong: narrating illness in the vernacular.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-68417-579-8
- OCLC:
- 1132661263
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9781684175796 DOI
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