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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
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; hyjw@hku.hk.
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Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences (2020) 50 (5): 633–640.
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Harry Yi-Jui Wu; Korean Medicine: A Time-Honored Brand that Transformed Itself. Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 23 November 2020; 50 (5): 633–640. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/hsns.2020.50.5.633
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