Assistant Professor
Korea Foundation Professor
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Email: soyoung.suh@dartmouth.edu
Phone: 6036462595
Hinman Box: HB 6107
B.S. Seoul National University; M.S. Seoul National University; Ph.D. University of California Los Angeles
History of Korean medicine; Korean consumption of Chinese medical texts and herbs; History of psychiatry in Korea; History of science in East Asia
Suh, Soyoung, (forthcoming) “Hŏ Chun’s (1546-1615) Tongŭibogam ( Precious Mirror of Eastern Medicine ),” an insert in TJ Hinrichs and Linda L. Barnes eds., Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press)
___________, (forthcoming) “Marketing Medicine to Koreans,” a book chapter inserted in Vivienne Lo ed., Visualizing Chinese Medicine (Leiden and Boston, MA, Brill).
___________, (2010) Review of Carla Nappi, The Monkey and the Inkpot: Natural History and Its Transformation in Early Modern China (Cambridge Massachusetts; Harvard University Press, 2009), Journal of the Korean History of Science Society , 32:2, 311-319 (Korean).
___________, (2010) “From Influence to Confluence: Positioning the History of Pre-Modern Korean Medicine in East Asia,” Korean Journal of Medical History 19:2, 225-254, state of the field article.
___________, (2010) Review of Institute of History of Medicine, Yonsei University ed., Hanŭihak, singminjirŭl alt’a 한의학, 식민지를 앓다: 식민지 시기 한의학의 근대화 연구 __ The Modernization of Korean Traditional Medicine during the Colonial Period (Seoul: Akanet, 2008), East Asian Science, Technology and Society: an International Journal. 4:2, 363-366.
___________, (2008) “Herbs of Our Own Kingdom: Layers of the ‘Local’ in the Materia Medica of Chosŏn Korea,” Asian Medicine: Tradition and Modernity 4:2, 395-422.
___________, (2008) “A History of Herbal Medicine in Korea” an article inserted in Volker Scheid and Dan Bensky, Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies , 2 nd ed. (Eastland Press).
“Treating the Liver: Towards A Transnational History of Medicine in East Asia, 1500-2000” funded by the Wellcome Trust.
Senior Researcher
Dr. Volker Scheid (EAST medicine Research Centre, University of Westminster, London)
Co-researchers:
Dr. Keiko Daidoji (EAST medicine Research Centre, University of Westminster, London)
Dr. Eric Karchmer (EAST medicine Research Centre, University of Westminster, London)