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Naming the local : medicine, language, and identity in Korea since the fifteenth century
- Title
- Naming the local : medicine, language, and identity in Korea since the fifteenth century / Soyoung Suh.
- Author
- Suh, Soyoung
- Publication
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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Details
- Description
- xiv, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- 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.--
- Series Statement
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 404
- Uniform Title
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 404.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-216) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Local botanicals, or hyangyak : the correct name of herb and self -- Eastern medicine, or tongŭi : imagining a place for medical innovation -- Chosŏn Koreans : the colonial identification of the local -- Lifesaving water : managing the indigenous for medical advertisements -- Fire illness, or hwabyŏng : narrating illness in the vernacular -- Epilogue.
- Call Number
- JFE 17-4783
- ISBN
- 9780674976962
- 0674976967
- LCCN
- 2016052194
- OCLC
- 967791150
- Author
- Suh, Soyoung, author.
- Title
- Naming the local : medicine, language, and identity in Korea since the fifteenth century / Soyoung Suh.
- Publisher
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
- Distributor
- Cambridge (Massachusetts) : Harvard University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Harvard East Asian monographs ; 404Harvard East Asian monographs ; 404.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-216) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 17-4783