Wahlberg, Ayo (Author)
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 8.1
Pages: 43--56
This article examines the making of a national medicine in Vietnam. How can it be that the medical traditions in Vietnam came to be described as Vietnamese during the course of the twentieth century? In this article, I suggest that historical contingencies in Vietnam have facilitated what might be thought of as a doctrine of combination, somewhat in contrast to the institutionalized and contentious separation of, for example, Chinese and Korean medicine from modern medicine. In particular, I show how when it came to traditional medicine, H Chí Minh and the people around him responsible for health-care-related issues were on the offensive from the very outset of their nation-building efforts.
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