Article ID: CBB583714096

Toxic Remedies: On the Cultivation of Medicinal Plants and Urban Ecologies (2021)

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Mohácsi, Gergely (Author)


East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Volume: 15
Issue: 2
Pages: 192-210


Publication Date: 2021
Edition Details: Special Issue: Material Itineraries: Southeast Asian Urban Transformations
Language: English

Growing concerns with air-pollution, contaminated drinking water, and deteriorated sewerage infrastructures contributed to an increasing environmental awareness in Vietnam during the past decade. At urban sites, such as herbal gardens in Hanoi, these ecological concerns converge with medicinal itineraries of East Asian herbal medications and the health of a rising middle-class. In these emerging chemosocial configurations, public health becomes an environmental issue, and the city holds out the promise of a resilient space of planetary health. To illustrate such lateral movements, this article focuses on the cultivation and transplantation of medicinal plants in central Hanoi. Thinking through the question of how people and herbs come to cultivate and be cultivated by one another, I argue, helps to understand the public health stakes of chemosocial infrastructures in a rapidly urbanizing Vietnam and, more generally, in urban transformations throughout Asia. At stake both in the transformation of plants into pharmaceutical products and in the modes of transplanting knowledges and methods from one world (or discipline) to another is the lateral mobility between East Asian medical practices and STS methodologies.

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Article Casper Bruun Jensen (2021) Material Itineraries: Southeast Asian Urban Transformations. East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (pp. 124-134). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Montoya, Alfred
Spackman, Christy C. W.
Tironi, Manuel
Arribas Ramírez
Mélard, François
Miki Namba
Concepts
Technoscience; science and technology studies
Cities and towns
Environment
Gardens
Ethnography
Pollution
Time Periods
21st century
20th century, late
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
East Asia
Vietnam
United States
Japan
China
Korea
Institutions
Du Pont Company
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