Naming the Local : : Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century / / Soyoung Suh.

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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Superior document:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 404
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Place / Publishing House:Boston : : Harvard University Asia Center,, 2017.
Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2017.
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:Harvard East Asian Monographs ; 404.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 228 pages )
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Other title:Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century
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.--
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:1684175798
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: Soyoung Suh.