C Michele Thompson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3601900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Michele Thompson |
| GIVEN NAMES | C Michele |
| FAMILY NAME | Thompson |
| SIGNATURE | THOMPSON C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Connecticut State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2072-6664 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Finding the Sweet Spot
When most people think of the use of animals in traditional systems of medicine, what springs to mind is one kind or another of megafauna such as rhinoceros, bears, sharks, and others. Sometimes more mundane creatures such as pangolins are included. However, invertebrates and substances produced by them have been used in Asian systems of medicine since the earliest records of materia medica from the region were created. Animals used range from sh…
Bamboo in Vietnam
Fragrant Frontier
The editors of Fragrant Frontier have produced an impressively researched book on the contemporary growers, in northern Vietnam and Southwest China, of three spices—star anise, black cardamom, and cinnamon, each of which has local, regional, and international economic importance—as well as the human links in the global commodity chain of these spices. This is a nice touch that gives this volume about the recent situation of farmers, local traders…
Beyond the Asylum
Reviewed by: Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam by Claire E. Edington C. Michele Thompson Edington, Claire E.–Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 291 p. Claire E. Edington’s Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam truly does go “beyond the asylum” in its examination of the complex interplay between culture, both French and Vietname…
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
The implications of gia truyền
In Vietnamese medicine, gia truyền (“family recipes”) refers to a set of texts, primarily in chữ nôm (demotic Vietnamese characters), that preserves local knowledge about how practitioners in a specific family-based medical circle could use various plants and other materia medica to cure disease. This article traces the history of the transmission of gia truyền in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that prior to the 1920s, gia truyền were w…
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detai…
The Vaccinators
Reviewed by: The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan C. Michele Thompson Ann Jannetta. The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 245 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8047-5489-7). In The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan, Ann Jannetta uses the complex history of the introduction of Jennerian vaccinat…
The implications of gia truyền
In Vietnamese medicine, gia truyền (“family recipes”) refers to a set of texts, primarily in chữ nôm (demotic Vietnamese characters), that preserves local knowledge about how practitioners in a specific family-based medical circle could use various plants and other materia medica to cure disease. This article traces the history of the transmission of gia truyền in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that prior to the 1920s, gia truyền were w…
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detai…
The Vaccinators
Reviewed by: The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan C. Michele Thompson Ann Jannetta. The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2007. xviii + 245 pp. Ill. $45.00 (978-0-8047-5489-7). In The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan, Ann Jannetta uses the complex history of the introduction of Jennerian vaccinat…
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
While reshaping our understanding of the history and development of traditional Vietnamese medicine in the 19th and 20th centuries, Michele Thompson's new book reaches across disciplines to open important perspectives in Vietnamese colonial and social history as well as our understanding of the Vietnamese language and writing systems. Traditional Vietnamese medicine is generally understood as an import from the Chinese tradition: Thompson's detai…
Vietnamese Traditional Medicine
The implications of gia truyền
In Vietnamese medicine, gia truyền (“family recipes”) refers to a set of texts, primarily in chữ nôm (demotic Vietnamese characters), that preserves local knowledge about how practitioners in a specific family-based medical circle could use various plants and other materia medica to cure disease. This article traces the history of the transmission of gia truyền in the 19th and 20th centuries. It suggests that prior to the 1920s, gia truyền were w…
Beyond the Asylum
Reviewed by: Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam by Claire E. Edington C. Michele Thompson Edington, Claire E.–Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2019. 291 p. Claire E. Edington’s Beyond the Asylum: Mental Illness in French Colonial Vietnam truly does go “beyond the asylum” in its examination of the complex interplay between culture, both French and Vietname…
Fragrant Frontier
The editors of Fragrant Frontier have produced an impressively researched book on the contemporary growers, in northern Vietnam and Southwest China, of three spices—star anise, black cardamom, and cinnamon, each of which has local, regional, and international economic importance—as well as the human links in the global commodity chain of these spices. This is a nice touch that gives this volume about the recent situation of farmers, local traders…
Bamboo in Vietnam
Finding the Sweet Spot
When most people think of the use of animals in traditional systems of medicine, what springs to mind is one kind or another of megafauna such as rhinoceros, bears, sharks, and others. Sometimes more mundane creatures such as pangolins are included. However, invertebrates and substances produced by them have been used in Asian systems of medicine since the earliest records of materia medica from the region were created. Animals used range from sh…
Vietnamese (6 works) · History (5 works) · Medicine (5 works) · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies (5 works) · History (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Traditional medicine (4 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)