Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9814722057 ISBN 13 : 9789814722056

Editeur : NUS Press, 2018

Synopsis

Until recently, receiving a European or North American-style medical education in Southeast Asia was a profoundly transformative experience, as western conceptions of the body differed significantly from indigenous knowledge and explanations. Further, conceptions of the human body had to be translated into local languages and related to vernacular views of health, disease, and healing. Translating the Body is the first book to present the history of biomedical education across Southeast Asia. The contributors chart and analyze the organization of western medical education in Southeast Asia, public health education campaigns in the region, and the ways in which practitioners of what came to be conceived of as "traditional medicine" in many Southeast Asian countries organized themselves in response.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Hans Pols is associate professor at the Unit for History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney.

Michele Thompson is the author of Vietnamese Traditional Medicine: A Social History.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: NUS Press
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9814722057
• ISBN 13: 9789814722056
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Éditeur: Pols Hans, Thompson C. Michele, Warner John Harley
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• Personne responsable: non disponible