Suh, Soyoung (Author)
Harvard University Asia Center
Physical Details: 244 pages
Language: English
Naming the Local uncovers how Koreans domesticated foreign medical novelties on their own terms, while simultaneously modifying the Korea-specific expressions of illness and wellness to make them accessible to the wider network of scholars and audiences.Due to Korea’s geopolitical position and the intrinsic tension of medicine’s efforts to balance the local and the universal, Soyung Suh argues that Koreans’ attempts to officially document indigenous categories in a particular linguistic form required constant negotiation of their own conceptual boundaries against the Chinese, Japanese, and American authorities that had largely shaped the medical knowledge grid. The birth, decline, and afterlife of five terminologies―materia medica, the geography of the medical tradition, the body, medical commodities, and illness―illuminate an irresolvable dualism at the heart of the Korean endeavor to name the indigenous attributes of medicine.By tracing Korean-educated agents’ efforts to articulate the vernacular nomenclature of medicine over time, this book examines the limitations and possibilities of creating a mode of “Koreanness” in medicine―and the Korean manifestation of cultural and national identities.
...MoreReview Harry Yi-Jui Wu (2020) Review of "Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century". Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (pp. 633-640).
Review John P. DiMoia (2018) Review of "Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century". Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences (pp. 24-27).
Essay Review Dong-won Shin (2020) The Emergence of New Grids for Viewing the History of Medicine in Korea beyond “Koreanness”. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine (pp. 149-162).
Review Sixiang Wang (2019) Review of "Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century". Social History of Medicine (pp. 190-191).
Review Martina Deuchler (2018) Review of "Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 612-613).
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