Half title page; About the series; Full title page; Copyright page; Dedication page; Map of Vietnam; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; Chapter 2 -- A Medical Mission: The Independent Vietnamese Quest for Smallpox Vaccine; Chapter 3 -- The Vietnamese Voice: Language, Orthography, and Smallpox Etiology in Vietnamese Medical Texts; Chapter 4 -- Vernacular Scripts and the Transfer and Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Vietnam; Chapter 5 -- Conclusion; Appendix -- An Example of Vietnamese Taxonomy; Bibliography; Index
Notes
Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Washington, 1998
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-171) and index
