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Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History (History of Medicine in Southeast Asia) Paperback – June 22, 2015

by C. Michele Thompson (Author)
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Medical manuscripts in Chinese and in Nom (vernacular Vietnamese) capture various aspects of the historical interaction between Chinese and Vietnamese thought. In Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History, Michele Thompson argues that indigenous Vietnamese concepts regarding health and the human body helped shape Vietnam’s reception of foreign medical ideas and practices, first from China and then from the West. To illustrate this theme, she presents a detailed analysis of the Vietnamese response to a Chinese medical technique for preventing smallpox, and to the medical concepts associated with it, looking at Vietnamese healers from a variety of social classes.


 


Thompson’s account brings together colorful historical vignettes, contemporary observations and interviews, and textual analysis. One particularly instructive episode was Jean Marie Despiau’s 1820‒21 journey from Vietnam to Macau to secure doses of smallpox vaccine to vaccinate the royal children of the Nguyen Dynasty. The documentation associated with Despiau’s effort provides insight into the Vietnamese receptiveness to one foreign medical technique and the concepts of the body associated with it.


      
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    200 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publisher
    National University of Singapore Press
  4. Publication date
    June 22, 2015
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    9971698358
  7. ISBN-13
    978-9971698355
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“The real focus, and strength, of this work is its attention to the uses of language in medical texts, which tells us about more about the linguistic strategies and theoretical underpinnings of traditional Vietnamese medicine than it tells us about the social contexts in which this medicine was being practiced, received, and transmitted over time.”
  ― Social History of Medicine

About the Author

Michele Thompson is the author of Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History. 

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ National University of Singapore Press (June 22, 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 200 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 9971698358
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-9971698355
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 11.1 ounces
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.5 x 9 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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5.0 out of 5 stars West of the nine squares of the New Haven colony ...
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West of the nine squares of the New Haven colony is Westville by West Rock the western of two old stubs of an ancient mountain range. Southern Connecticut State started there as a normal school. Normal schools train teachers. In France the prestigious national university for history, literature and philosophy is the Normal School in Paris which graduated Jean-Paul Sartre. Both he and his friend Simone de Beauvoir of the Sorbonne wrote their most original and influential books while teaching high school. In the United States the more German emphasis on post-baccalaureate training has led Southern to hire research scholars and become Southern Connecticut State University. C. Michele Thompson represents Viet Nam there with her teaching on the national history and her writing on the body in what is now Viet Nam. What is the body? You never think about it until it falls apart as mine did when I first left New Haven for Ha Noi. Michele found me as I lay in my state guest house and installed me across an alley from the private one where she was well embarked on this study of disease and its prevention which explains in the most abstract as well as the most immediate terms how Viet Nam is not China as emphatically as it is not France or the United States. [from my review elsewhere]
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