57. Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician TueTinh

Thompson, C. Michele

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“…1389). For many centuries in Vietnam and East and Southeast Asia more generally, it was common for Buddhist monks and nuns to work as healers; Buddhist contexts have continued to be the most important loci for the crosscultural exchange of diverse currents of medicine ideas and practices concerning illness and healing (Thompson 2017b). Local traditions of Buddhist medicine represent unique hybrid combinations of cross-culturally transmitted and indigenous knowledge (Salguero 2018).…”

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Network Life of Non-biomedical Knowledge

Nguyen

2021

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Traditional medicine is hugely popular throughout Southeast Asia and other parts of the world. The development of the internet and online social networks in these contexts has enabled a significant proliferation of non-biomedical knowledge and practices via platforms such as Facebook. People use Facebook to advocate for non- biomedical alternatives to unaffordable biomedicine, share family medical recipes, discuss medicinal properties of indigenous plants, buy and sell these plants, and even crowdsource disease diagnoses. This paper examines the network characteristics of, and discourses present within, three popular Vietnamese non-biomedical knowledge Facebook sites over a period of five years. These large-scale datasets are studied using social network analysis and generative statistical models for topic analysis (Latent Dirichlet allocation). Forty-nine unique topics were quantitatively identified and qualitatively interpreted. Among these topics, themes of religion and philanthropy, critical discussions of traditional medicine, and negotiations involving overseas Vietnamese were particularly notable. Although non-biomedical networks on Facebook are growing both in terms of scale and popularity, sub-network comment activities within these networks exhibit ‘small world’ characteristics. This suggests that social media seem to be replicating existing social dynamics that historically enable the maintenance of traditional forms of medical knowledge, rather than transforming them here.

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Network Life of Non-biomedical Knowledge

Nguyen

2021

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“…Vũ Văn Chuyên [2008] summarized putative pharmaceutical effects of medicine made of slow loris: "Da lông Cu li được dùng trị du phong, sốt cao, phong thấp; óc và nước tiểu có tác dụng trấn tĩnh tức phong, dùng trị các chứng phong" (The skin and hair of lorises can treat wind stroke, extremely high fever and joint pain; brain and urine can treat diseases caused by noxious and toxic miasma because it relieves the effect of wind stroke), citing Tuệ Tĩnh, a founder and first documenter of Vietnamese traditional medicine, living in the 17th century [Đỗ Tất Lợi, 2004;Thompson, 2017]. In "Nam dược thần diệu" (Miraculous Drugs of the South), Tuệ Tĩnh writes, "Phong ly (Cù lần, Cu li) tính nhát, thấy người thì rụt đầu lại.…”

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“…Several additional medicinal uses stated by respondents seem to relate to perceived properties or behaviours of slow lorises, a theme in other traditional Vietnamese and Chinese medicines derived from wildlife products other than slow lorises [Tuệ Tĩnh, 1978/1723Thompson, 2017]. For example, it was observed by an informant that:…”

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Slow Loris Trade in Vietnam: Exploring Diverse Knowledge and Values

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Wildlife trade can present a major threat to primate populations. In Vietnam, slow lorises (genus Nycticebus) are subject to local, regional and international demand for diverse uses including as medicine, as meat and for pets. Ethnographic approaches explore the nuances of human-primate interactions in complex sociocultural contexts. We combined ethnographic interviews of key informants with information from questionnaires, focus groups and a movie broadcast on Vietnamese television to explore diverse knowledge and values related to slow lorises and their use in trade in Vietnam. We infer prices, uses and networks for expanding targeted regional and international markets as compared to the opportunistic local one. We highlight key findings related to gendered knowledge about slow lorises and more-than-human ontologies of slow lorises as active participants in human-slow loris interactions. We suggest that conservation efforts should pay attention to the clarification of vernacular names, and use names that highlight ecological or behavioural qualities of slow lorises, rather than other names that could be confused with medicinal remedies. Our results confirm the dynamic complexity of trade in Vietnam, highlighting the importance of ethnographic methods to explore diverse knowledge and values for place-based or site-appropriate conservation management of primates and other highly traded taxa.

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57. Selections from Miraculous Drugs of the South, by the Vietnamese Buddhist Monk-Physician TueTinh

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Slow Loris Trade in Vietnam: Exploring Diverse Knowledge and Values

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