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Medicine and doctors according to the Annamite code
Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine, Bulletin • 5 • Published In 1906 • Pages: 34-49
By: Jeanselme, E., Botsford, Keith.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This article brings together with a brief discussion several articles of the Annamite Code which deal with the definition and punishment of faults in the practice of medicine and pharmacy. Jeanselme, a French doctor, covers, among other things, the laws concerning castration, sorcery, the preparation of medicine and food for the sovereign, marriage, the sale of toxic products, and legal medicine.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Acculturation and culture contact
- Pharmaceuticals
- Body alterations
- Retail businesses
- Status, role, and prestige
- Regulation of marriage
- Kin relationships
- Lineages
- Executive household
- Liability
- Offenses against life
- Property offenses
- Trial procedure
- Medical personnel
- Miscellaneous sex behavior
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Vietnamese
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Southeast Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- article
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Physician
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 3: Good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Roseanne Mandler ; 1953; Teferi A. Adem ; 2006
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 616 A.D. - 1905
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- central Vietnam
- NotesAdditional notes
- [by] E. Jeanselme
- Translation of: [La médecine et les médecins d'après le Code Annamite]
- Translated from the French for Human Relations Area Files by Keith Botsford
- Includes bibliographical references
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Vietnamese