Familiar Medicine : : Everyday Health Knowledge and Practice in Today's Vietnam / / David Craig.
One of the first medical ethnographies to be written on contemporary Vietnam, Familiar Medicine examines the practical ways in which people of the Red River Delta make sense of their bodies, illness, and medicine. Traditional knowledge and practices have persisted but are now expressed through and a...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UHP eBook Package 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Honolulu : : University of Hawaii Press, , [2002] ©2002 |
| Year of Publication: | 2002 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (312 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Preface
- 1. Place
- 2. North, South, East, and West: Cultural Formations of Vietnamese Medicine
- 3. An Ethnography of Health and Illness in Northern Vietnam
- 4. Traditional Household Medicine
- 5. Familiar Medicine: Antibiotics in Market and Culture
- 6. The Patterning of Medical Choices
- 7. Local and Global Pharmacy Governance: The King's Law Stops at the Village Gate?
- Notes
- Glossary
- References
- Index