Research Catalog

Title

Naming the local : medicine, language, and identity in Korea since the fifteenth century / Soyoung Suh.

Author

Suh, Soyoung

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Published by the Harvard University Asia Center, 2017.
• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Distributed by Harvard University Press

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Details

Description

xiv, 228 pages; 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.

Subject

• Gug lib mun hwa jae yeon gu so
• History, Modern 1601-
• History, 16th Century
• Language
• Medicine, Korean Traditional > history
• Traditional medicine > Korea > History
• Medicine > Korea > History
• Language and medicine > Korea > History
• Medicine and psychology > Korea > History
• Language and medicine
• Medicine
• Medicine and psychology
• Traditional medicine
• History, Early Modern 1451-1600
• Korea

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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.

ISBN

• 9780674976962 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0674976967 (hardcover : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2016052194

OCLC

• 967791150
• SCSB-10927022

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library