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Medicine and doctors according to the Annamite code

Société Française d'Histoire de la Médecine, Bulletin5Published 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