Korean MedicineA Time-Honored Brand that Transformed Itself

Wu, Harry Yi-Jui

doi:10.1525/hsns.2020.50.5.633

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Book Review| November 23 2020

Korean Medicine: A Time-Honored Brand that Transformed Itself

John P. Dimoia,

Reconstructing Bodies: Biomedicine, Health and Nation-Building in South Korea since 1945

.

Stanford, CA

:

Stanford University Press

,

2013

. 296 pp., illus. ISBN 9780804784115 (cloth).

Theodore Jun Yoo,

It’s Madness: The Politics of Mental Health in Colonial Korea

.

Oakland

:

University of California Press

,

2016

. 248 pp., illus. ISBN: 9780520289307 (cloth).

Soyoung Suh,

Naming the Local: Medicine, Language, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century

.

Cambridge, MA

:

Harvard University Press

,

2017

. xv + 229 pp., illus. ISBN: 9780674976962 (cloth).

Harry Yi-Jui Wu

Director and Assistant Professor of Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit, Li Ka Shing Faculty, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China; [email protected].

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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2020) 50 (5): 633–640.

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