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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Auteur principal: Suh, Soyoung (Auteur)
Collectivité auteur: Project Muse
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
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.
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Résumé: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.--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (248 pages).
ISBN:9781684175796

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