Polyglot Asian Medicines: Foundational Resources and Digital Tools

Michael STANLEY-BAKER; Francesco PERONO CACCIAFOCO; Faizah ZAKARIA

Polyglot Asian Medicines: Foundational Resources and Digital Tools

Michael STANLEY-BAKER
, Francesco PERONO CACCIAFOCO
, Faizah ZAKARIA

Nanyang Technological University

Research output: Other contribution › peer-review

Abstract

The database is a multi-disciplinary collaborative research platform for the history, ecology and clinical use of Asian medicines. The term "polyglot" refers to the ways that Asian medicines traverse not just regions and time, but languages and different epistemologies and practice communities. Our website (https://www.polyglotasianmedicine.com/ ) provides resources and tools for researching this multi-lingual spectrum, and organizes them into three main clusters: 1) digitised, tagged, searchable manuscripts; 2) digitised historical maps of the Bencao materia medica traditions; 3) multi-lingual drug name synonymy. Taken together, these tools and resources can facilitate a new generation of historical and contemporary research on Asian medicines, including modern practice, and new drug discovery. The data platform is expandable, and open to collaboration.

Original language	English
Type	Open-access Database in Medical Humanities, Singapore, Nanyang Technological University (NTU)
Media of output	Website
Publisher	Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
Number of pages	23
Place of Publication	Singapore
Publication status	Published - 2 Aug 2022

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 1 No Poverty
SDG 2 Zero Hunger
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being
SDG 4 Quality Education
SDG 15 Life on Land

Keywords

Medical Humanities
Health Humanities
Digital Humanities
Traditional Medicine
Asian Medicine

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https://www.polyglotasianmedicine.com/Licence: CC BY-NC-SA

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