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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Table of 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.