Pols, Hans (Editor)
Thompson, C. Michele (Editor)
Warner, John Harley (Editor)
National University of Singapore Press
Physical Details: 368 pp.
Language: English
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.
...MoreReview Nicolo Paolo P. Ludovice (March 2020) Review of "Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia". East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 177-181).
Review Trais Pearson (2020) Review of "Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 158-160).
Review Wayne Soon (2018) Review of "Translating the Body: Medical Education in Southeast Asia". Social History of Medicine (pp. 669-671).
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