Transcultural medicine: A multi-sited ethnography on the scientific-industrial networking of Korean medicine

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 31-64

  Kim, Jongyoung ^a  

^a Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Actor network theory; Multi sited ethnography; Scientization; Sociotechnical relation; Transcultural medicine

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; KOREA; LABORATORY; MEDICAL SCHOOL; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORIENTAL MEDICINE; PHYTOTHERAPY; PUBLIC RELATIONS;

ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; INTERINSTITUTIONAL RELATIONS; KOREA; LABORATORIES; MEDICINE, EAST ASIAN TRADITIONAL; PHYTOTHERAPY; SCHOOLS, MEDICAL;

EID: 61449245822     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740802640909     Document Type: Article

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