THE POPULARIZATION OF COMMON MEDICAL KNOWLEDGE IN VIETNAM’S SOUTHERN REGION DURING THE EARLY XXth CENTURY THROUGH KHOA-HỌC TAP-CHÍ (SCIENTIFIC REVIEW) AND KHOA-HỌC PHO-THONG (POPULARIZED SCIENCES) REVIEWS

Abstract

In the early decades of the twentieth century, many reviews specializing in science were born in Southern Vietnam when Western scientific knowledge began to be introduced into Vietnamese society. These reviews were founded by Western – educated intellectual groups, whose goals were to disseminate the basic knowledge of natural science and popular science, laying the foundations for the reception of scientific knowledge for the people in the future. The paper researches on the purposes, contents and forms of disseminating knowledge of common medicine in two typical scientific reviews in Southern Vietnam which are Khoa-học Tập-chí and Khoa-học Phổ-thông.

Keywords: common medicine, Khoa-học Tập-chí, Khoa-học Phổ-thông, Western - educated intellectual, Southern Vietnam, the early twentieth century