Translating the Body
Issued Date
Copyright Date
2017
Resource Type
Language
eng
Text
Text
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application/pdf
No. of Pages/File Size
368
ISBN
9789814722056
Title
Alternative Title(s)
Medical Education in Southeast Asia
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Other Contributor(s)
Abstract
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 explanatory frameworks. Further, European and North American conceptions of the human body had to be translated into local languages and related to vernacular views of health, disease, and healing. This process of medical translation developed in the context of colonialism, which sought to remake colonized societies in a multitude of ways. The contributors to this volume 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.
This volume uses “translating the body” as shorthand to call attention to the processes through which medical ideas, practices, and epistemologies are formulated in pedagogical contexts, processes involving both interpretation and transmission. Translation here is a linguistic but also a cultural operation, and in approaching medical education, the book follows recent work in translation studies that underscores the translation not merely of words but of cultures.
Table of contents
Contents
List of Illustrations
Introduction 1--
1. Nel Stokvis-Cohen Stuart (1881-1964) and Her Role in Educating Female Nurses and Midwives in the Dutch East Indies 38--
Liesbeth Hesselink.
2. Trouble with "Status": Competing Models of British and North American Public Health Nursing Education and Practice in British Malaya 67--
Rosemary Wall and Anne Marie Rafferty
3. Cattle for the Colony: Veterinary Science and Animal Breeding in Colonial Indochina 95--
Annick Guenel
4. Women's Health in Laos: From Colonial Times to the Present 116--
Kathryn Sweet
5. Learning to Heal the People: Socialist Medicine and Education in Vietnam, 1945-54 146--
Michitake Aso
6. The Expansion and Transformation of Medical Education in Indonesia During the 1950s in Jakarta and Surabaya 173--
Vivek Neelakantan
7. "Cambodian Pathology": Imagining Modemn Biomedicinein the Cambodian-Soviet Medical Journal, Revue Medico-Chirurgicale de I'Hopital de I'Amitie Khmero-Sovietique (1961-71) 194--
Jenna Grant
8. Epidemics, Empire, and Education:Contested Discourses on the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in the Philippines 230--
Francis A. Gealogo
9. Medical Education "from Below": Self-medication, Medical Pluralism, and Therapeutic Citizenship in Colonial Vietnam 250--
Laurence Monnais
10. The Invention of Medical Tradition in Thai 273--
Thai Traditional Medicine and Thai Massage
Junko lida
11. Honoring the Teachers, Constructing the Lineage: 295--
A Wai Khru Ritual among Healers in Chiang Mai, Thailand
C. Pierce Salguero
Bibliography 319--
Contributors 345--
Index 351--