![]() | Familiar Medicine: Everyday Health Knowledge and Practice in Today''s Vietnam Subjects: Traditional medicine -- Vietnam -- Red River Delta; Ethnobotany -- Vietnam -- Red River Delta; Materia medica -- Vietnam -- Red River Delta; Public health -- Vietnam -- Red River Delta; Globalization; Red River Delta (Vietnam) -- Social life and customs; 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. |
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