Familiar medicine : everyday health knowledge and practice in today's Vietnam

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Label

Familiar medicine : everyday health knowledge and practice in today's Vietnam

Title remainder

everyday health knowledge and practice in today's Vietnam

Statement of responsibility

David Craig

Creator

• Craig, David, 1961-

Subject

• Anti-Bacterial Agents -- therapeutic use
• Ethnobotanique -- Viêt-nam | Rouge, Delta du
• Ethnobotany
• Ethnobotany
• Ethnobotany -- Vietnam | Red River Delta
• Etnobotanie
• Gezondheidszorg
• Globalization
• Globalization
• Internationalisatie
• MEDICAL -- History
• Manners and customs
• Materia Medica
• Materia medica
• Materia medica -- Vietnam | Red River Delta
• Matière médicale -- Viêt-nam | Rouge, Delta du
• Medicine, East Asian Traditional
• Médecine populaire -- Viêt-nam | Rouge, Delta du
• Public health
• Public health -- Vietnam | Red River Delta
• Red River Delta (Vietnam) -- Social life and customs
• Rouge, Delta du (Viêt-nam) -- Mœurs et coutumes
• SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
• Santé publique -- Viêt-nam | Rouge, Delta du
• Self Medication
• The Vietnam War
• Traditional medicine
• Traditional medicine -- Vietnam | Red River Delta
• Vietnam
• Vietnam
• Vietnam
• Vietnam -- Red River Delta
• Volksgeneeskunde
• Volksmedizin
• Mondialisation

Language

eng

Summary

Annotation "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." "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."--BOOK JACKET. Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Action

digitized

Cataloging source

N$T

Dewey number

610/.9597

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Language note

In English

LC call number

GN635.V5

LC item number

C73 2002eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography

NLM call number

WB 50 JV6

NLM item number

C886f 2002