| This dissertation examines the historic interaction of Chinese and Vietnamese Traditional Medicine through a case study of the social and bio-medical impact of smallpox and of treatments for it. It focuses on Vietnam in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Specific chapters focus on the introduction of vaccination for smallpox to Vietnam, practices of variolation and vaccination for smallpox in Vietnam, and on the role of language and the scripts that were used to write medical texts in Vietnam. This dissertation also includes information on Vietnamese pharmacology, the introduction of vaccination to Asia, the development of the present day health care system in Vietnam, and the changes in the social role of Vietnamese medicine under the Nguye˜n Dynasty and the government of French Indochina. |
