Vietnamese Traditional Medicine

Author : C. Michele Thompson
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789971698355

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Vietnamese Traditional Medicine by C. Michele Thompson Pdf

While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detailed historical and linguistic research restores agency and voice to practitioners of Vietnamese medicine, showing how the adoption of Chinese and then Western ideas of medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries relied on indigenous Vietnamese concepts of health and the human body. She mines medical manuscripts in Chinese and in Nom (vernacular Vietnamese) to capture various aspects of the historical interaction between Chinese and Vietnamese thought. She presents a detailed analysis of the Vietnamese response to a Chinese medical technique for preventing smallpox, and to the medical concepts associated with it, looking at Vietnamese healers from a variety of social classes. Thompson's account brings together colorful historical vignettes, contemporary observations and interviews, and textual analysis. It stands out as a demonstration of the power of the history of medicine to illuminate adjacent fields of enquiry. It will be of interest to historians of medicine globally and in East Asia, as well as to students of Vietnam and its complex process of modernization.

Author : Laurence Monnais,C. Michele Thompson,Ayo Wahlberg
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-11-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781443835350

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Southern Medicine for Southern People by Laurence Monnais,C. Michele Thompson,Ayo Wahlberg Pdf

What is a national medicine? What does it mean for a medicine to be traditional and scientific at the same time? How could a specifically Vietnamese medicine emerge out of the medical practices and treatments that have flourished and waned during key socio-cultural encounters in Vietnam? This book answers these questions by examining the making of Vietnamese medicine from a historical and contemporary perspective. Ever since its fourteenth century emergence out of the traditions and practices of the much more globally celebrated Chinese medicine, Vietnamese medicine has been engaged in a constant effort to define, guard and more recently, revive itself. In this collection of empirically-rich chapters, international scholars specialising in history, sociology, anthropology and medicine show how this process has played out through very much ongoing North-South and West-East encounters. Vietnamese medicine is practiced, produced and consumed in contexts of medical pluralism and globalisation, not only within Vietnam, but increasingly also among the Vietnamese diaspora around the world. Its development and modernisation cannot be detached from Vietnam’s tumultuous and tragic quest for independence. The compass points that saturate every chapter in this volume suggest that the making of Vietnamese medicine has been as much related to post-colonial national identity formation as it has to national efforts to address the health problems of the Vietnamese people.

Author : Michelle Tram
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1686363192

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Traditional Vietnamese Medicine by Michelle Tram Pdf

Traditional Vietnamese Medicine is a short informational guide to common Vietnamese medicine practices. Whether you are a healthcare professional or layperson, this guide is for you. Traditional Vietnamese Medicine will give you a new or enhanced perspective of traditional medicine through easy-to-understand explanations of various practices of Traditional Vietnamese Medicine (TVM), including wind scraping, cupping, and acupuncture. Each practice is described in regards to its overview and history, beliefs regarding its health benefits, and any potential health risks. This book has been written to spread more information to the general population, ultimately hoping to improve communication and understanding between patients and their healthcare practitioners.

Author : David Craig
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-06-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0824824741

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Familiar Medicine by David Craig Pdf

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 alongside global medical knowledge and commodities. Western medicine has been eagerly adopted and incorporated into everyday life in Vietnam, but not entirely on its own terms. Familiar Medicine takes a conjectural, interdisciplinary approach to its subject, weaving together history, ethnography, cultural geography, and survey materials to provide a rich and readable account of local practices in the context of an increasingly globalized world and growing microbial resistance to antibiotics. Theoretically, it draws on current critical and cultural theory (in particular applying Pierre Bourdieu's work on habitus and practical logics) in innovative but approachable ways. David Craig addresses a range of contemporary fascinations in medical anthropology and the sociology of health and illness: from the trafficking of medical commodities and ideas under globalization to the hybridization of local cultural formations, knowledge, and practices. His book will be required reading for international workers in health and development in Vietnam and a rich resource for courses in cultural geography, anthropology, medical sociology, regional studies, and public and international health.

Author : Tara Kelly,Katie Maynard
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 27 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1944988270

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Vietnamese Cultural Characteristicis, Traditional Medicine and Health Beliefs by Tara Kelly,Katie Maynard Pdf

This Profile includes a short description of the history, culture and beliefs of the Vietnamese community living in the United States. The information included in this publication can be useful for health and social service providers working in diverse communities.Vietnamese Cultural Characteristics, Traditional Medicine and Health Beliefs:A Biomedical Practitioner's Guide to Better Understanding Vietnamese-American PatientsThis body of information is meant to create an introductory awareness in biomedical practioners about Vietnames health beliefs and traditional medicine use. It has covered a brief introduction to Vietnamese immigrants in the U.S., a description of Vietnamese traditional medicine, a list of Vietnamese traditional treatments, a section on the avaliablity of traditional medicines. The process of creating awareness to reduce disparities can be applied to interactions between bio medical practitioners and patients from other ethnic communities as well.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Who Regional Publications West
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Medical
ISBN : CORNELL:31924073122073

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Medicinal Plants in Viet Nam by Anonim Pdf

The book catalogues the 200 species of medicinal plants most commonly used in traditional Vietnamese medicine. The book, which has been translated from the original Vietnamese, was produced in an effort to communicate knowledge about herbal medicine that has accumulated over thousands of years, has been confirmed through both empirical experience and scientific evaluation, and yet has rarely been published outside the Vietnamese literature. It also responds to increasing respect for the value of medicinal plants as a source of efficacious and inexpensive new drugs that offer an important alternative to chemically synthesized medicines. The book has three main parts. The first part describes research in Viet Nam conducted on medicinal plants in line with the national policy of developing a system of medicine and pharmacy that integrates the modern and traditional systems. The second part, which constitutes the core of the book, describes and illustrates the 200 most valuable species of wild and cultivated medicinal plants in Viet Nam. Each plant species is first documented by a full color drawing illustrating the plant's distinctive features and natural colors. Explanatory notes for each species provide a concise description of the plant and give local names, flowering period, geographical distribution, parts used, chemical composition, and therapeutic uses. Information on indications and dosage is also provided. To facilitate retrieval of information, the third part indexes plant species according to botanical name, Vietnamese name, and English name.

Author : world health organization
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1396911449

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WHO Traditional Medicine Strategy: 2014-2023 by world health organization Pdf

Author : Peter Brain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1986-08-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780521320856

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Galen on Bloodletting by Peter Brain Pdf

Dr Brain has translated the works by the physician Galen on bloodletting, which provides by far the most comprehensive account of the practice in antiquity.

Author : Debby Nguyen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1636769454

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Pills, Teas, and Songs by Debby Nguyen Pdf

According to the Pew Research Center, half of the general American public has tried alternative medicine. Nguyen dares to ask, how often do people do so without understanding the culture where those medicines originated? Pills, Teas, and Songs: Stories of Medicine around the World is a collection of stories to deepen respect, inspire understanding, and spark curiosity. This book is dedicated to educating readers who are interested in incorporating different medicinal systems into their lives and to preserve the evolving legacy of healthcare. This book delves into... What cultural appropriation looks like in healthcare and wellness If Eastern and Western medicine are truly opposites Why immigrants and diasporic populations favor traditional medicine and heritage products The history behind Black midwifery in the US And much more Told through colorful stories of history and culture, Pills, Teas, and Songs: Stories of Medicine around the World is a timely reminder that, despite our differences, the human race has much more in common than we realize.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Traditional medicine
ISBN : OCLC:969583495

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Traditional Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Claire E. Edington
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781501733949

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Beyond the Asylum by Claire E. Edington Pdf

Claire Edington's fascinating look at psychiatric care in French colonial Vietnam challenges our notion of the colonial asylum as a closed setting, run by experts with unchallenged authority, from which patients rarely left. She shows instead a society in which Vietnamese communities and families actively participated in psychiatric decision-making in ways that strengthened the power of the colonial state, even as they also forced French experts to engage with local understandings of, and practices around, insanity. Beyond the Asylum reveals how psychiatrists, colonial authorities, and the Vietnamese public debated both what it meant to be abnormal, as well as normal enough to return to social life, throughout the early twentieth century. Straddling the fields of colonial history, Southeast Asian studies and the history of medicine, Beyond the Asylum shifts our perspective from the institution itself to its relationship with the world beyond its walls. This world included not only psychiatrists and their patients, but also prosecutors and parents, neighbors and spirit mediums, as well as the police and local press. How each group interacted with the mentally ill, with each other, and sometimes in opposition to each other, helped decide the fate of those both in and outside the colonial asylum.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Medicine
ISBN : IND:30000159102346

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Traditional Medicine by Anonim Pdf

Author : Sylvie Fanchette,Nicholas Stedman
Publisher : IRD Éditions
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9782709922289

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Discovering Craft Villages in Vietnam by Sylvie Fanchette,Nicholas Stedman Pdf

With their festivals and traditional industries, their commun halls, pagodas, temples, and vernacular buildings, the villages around Hà Nội possess a rich body of cultural, architectural and craft heritage. Less than one hour from the capital are over 500 specialist craft villages, producing an array of religious or artistic objects, as well as food products, industrial goods, textiles, basketware and much more. Despite the trials and tribulations Vietnam has endured, these traditions have remained alive; today they constitute the basis of material, social and spiritual culture among the village communities of the Red River delta. The artisans themselves, and their local institutions, see cultural tourism as a way of further improving the fortunes of the craft village communities and bringing their heritage to wider attention. Until recently, few guides or tourists had forayed into these settlements, some of which are lost in the maze of routes and tracks that criss-cross the rice paddies of the Hà Nội hinterland. The history and skills they harbour have been inaccessible to all but a few specialists. Few of the villages are signposted, yet between them they are home to three quarters of the architectural, religious and craft heritage of the upper delta. This book, the fruit of several years' research by specialists working in northern Vietnam, comprises ten itineraries, blending potted histories, legends, descriptions of craft techniques, signposted walks and maps, designed to introduce travellers and lovers of Vietnamese culture to forty or so villages around Hà Nội. Many of us have seen their wares on sale in shops in and around the 36 streets of Hà Nội Old Quarter or in other cities in West. This book is about the true lives and enduring skills of the nameless artisans who made them.

Author : John Balaban
Publisher : Copper Canyon Press
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781556591860

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Vietnamese Folk Poetry by John Balaban Pdf

A bilingual anthology of lyric poem-songs from Vietnam's oral folk tradition, this revised edition includes new poems and an eloquent Introduction explicating poetry's importance in Vietnamese culture.

Author : Valentina E. Balas,Le Hoang Son,Sudan Jha,Manju Khari,Raghvendra Kumar
Publisher : Academic Press
Page : 379 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780128173572

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Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering by Valentina E. Balas,Le Hoang Son,Sudan Jha,Manju Khari,Raghvendra Kumar Pdf

Internet of Things in Biomedical Engineering presents the most current research in Internet of Things (IoT) applications for clinical patient monitoring and treatment. The book takes a systems-level approach for both human-factors and the technical aspects of networking, databases and privacy. Sections delve into the latest advances and cutting-edge technologies, starting with an overview of the Internet of Things and biomedical engineering, as well as a focus on ‘daily life.’ Contributors from various experts then discuss ‘computer assisted anthropology,’ CLOUDFALL, and image guided surgery, as well as bio-informatics and data mining. This comprehensive coverage of the industry and technology is a perfect resource for students and researchers interested in the topic. Presents recent advances in IoT for biomedical engineering, covering biometrics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, computer vision and various network applications Discusses big data and data mining in healthcare and other IoT based biomedical data analysis Includes discussions on a variety of IoT applications and medical information systems Includes case studies and applications, as well as examples on how to automate data analysis with Perl R in IoT