Naming the Local : Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the 15th Century /

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 existi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Suh, Soyoung (Author)
Corporate Author: Project Muse
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Traditional medicine.
Medicine and psychology.
Medicine.
Language and medicine.
Medecine > Coree > Histoire.
Langage et medecine > Coree > Histoire.
Traditional medicine > Korea > History.
Medicine > Korea > History.
Language and medicine > Korea > History.
Medicine and psychology > Korea > History.
Korea.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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