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Thompson, C. M. (2022). Book Review: Aro Velmet, Pasteur’s Empire: Bacteriology & Politics in France, Its Colonies, & the World (New York: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. xiv + 306, $78.00, hardback, ISBN: 9780190072827. Medical History, 66(1), 88–89. https://doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2021.50

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Thompson, C. M. (1996). Book Review: Essays Into Vietnamese Pasts. Edited by K. W. Taylor and John K. Whitmore. Ithaca, N.Y.: Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University Press, 1995. 288 pp. $20.00 (paper). The Journal of Asian Studies, 55(4), 1093–1095. https://doi.org/10.2307/2646615

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Thompson, C. M. (1996). Book Review: Sexual Attraction and Childhood Association: A Chinese Brief for Edward Westermarck. By Arthur P. Wolf. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1995. xxiii, 561 pp. $65.00. The Journal of Asian Studies, 55(4), 993–994. https://doi.org/10.2307/2646552

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Thompson, C. M. (1996). Book Review: Chinese Acupuncture [l’Acuponcture Chinoise: La Tradition chinoise classifiée, precisée]. (Paris: Maloine, 1972). By George Soulié de Morant. Translated by Lawrence Grinnell, Claudy Jeanmougin and Maurice Leveque. Edited by Paul Zmiewski. Brookline, Mass.: Paradigm Publications, 1994. xxxii, 896 pp. $125.00. The Journal of Asian Studies, 55(2), 433–435. https://doi.org/10.2307/2943376

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Thompson, C. M. (2006). Scripts and Medical Scripture in Vietnam: Nôm and Classical Chinese in the Historic Transmission of Medical Knowledge in Pre-Twentieth Century Vietnam. Nghiên Cứu Chữ Nôm (Research on Nôm Script).

Thompson, C. M. (2005). French Colonial Medicine and Pharmacology in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam, 1802-1954". In Science Across the European Empires, 1800-1950. Oxford University Press.

Thompson, C. M. (2013). Tuệ Tĩnh Vietnamese Monk-Physician at the Ming Court. In The Illustrated History of Chinese Medicine and Healing. Harvard University Press.

Thompson, C. M. (2007). Lán Ông 1721-1791? In Dictionary of Medical Biography. Greenwood Press.

Thompson, C. M. (2007). Tuệ Tĩnh 1330-?". In Dictionary of Medical Biography. Greenwood Press.

Thompson, C. M. (1998). Vietnam. In Acquiring Cross-Cultural Competence: Four Stages for Students of French vol I.

Thompson, C. M. (2013). Book Review: The Vaccinators: Smallpox, Medical Knowledge, and the “Opening” of Japan. EASTM: East Asian Science, Technology and Medicine.

Thompson, C. M. (1985). Book Review: Chinese in the Post-Civil War South; a People Without a History. The Southern Historian, 72–73.

Thompson, C. M. (2026). Finding the Sweet Spot: Wild Bees, Indigenous Peoples, and the Historic Trade in Honey and Beeswax in Northern Vietnam. Asian Medicine, 21(1 Special Issue: “Medical Animals” and Asia, edited by Liz P. Y. Chee and Gregory Clancey), 85–106. https://doi.org/10.1163/15734218-12341603

When most people think of the use of animals in traditional systems of medicine, what springs to mind is one kind or another of megafauna such as rhinoceros, bears, sharks, and others. Sometimes more mundane creatures such as pangolins are included. However, invertebrates and substances produced by them have been used in Asian systems of medicine since the earliest records of materia medica from the region were created. Animals used range from shellfish and crustaceans to various insects and insect products such as cocoons, honey, and beeswax. In terms of their role in the food chain, and as pollinators, invertebrates are as crucial to the health, indeed the survival, of ecosystems in Asia and elsewhere as are megafauna. Loss and degradation of habitat is probably affecting more invertebrates than medicalization. Still, the expansion of medicalization in Asia and beyond is contributing to the danger many populations of invertebrates currently face. This article gives an overview of the place of invertebrates in Vietnamese traditional medicine and then presents a case study of two varieties of honey- and beeswax-producing bees found in northern mainland Southeast Asia and southern China: Apis dorsata F. and Apis cerana. © C. Michele Thompson, 2026. Published with license by Koninklijke Brill BV

Bello, D. A., & Thompson, C. M. (2018). Focus introduction: Swarms, herds, and peoples—examinations of interspecies dynamics in China. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, (48), 9–16. http://www.eastm.org/index.php/journal/article/view/826

As its title suggests, this Focus draws our attention to the shift in perspective brought about by environmental history, compared to the more traditional approaches of history of science. Here human knowledge of and interaction with animals are understood as part of a historically variable system that encompasses both the human realm and its environment, a system in which the various components interact and shape each other dynamically.

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Thompson, C. M. (2010). Sinification as Limitation: Minh Mạng’s Prohibition on Use of Nôm and the Resulting Marginalization of Nôm Medical Texts. In F. Bretelle-Establet (Ed.), Looking at it from Asia: the Processes that Shaped the Sources of History of Science (Vol. 265, pp. 393–412). Springer Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3676-6_13

For Vietnamese scholars in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries reading and writing ability in both Chinese and Nôm (an ideographic writing system used to write Vietnamese) was considered an essential tool of scholarship and literary expression.

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Bello, D. A., & Thompson, C. M. (2018). Swarms, Herds, and Peoples: Examinations of Interspecies Dynamics in China. East Asian Science, Technology, and Medicine, (48), 9–17. https://go.gale.com/ps/i.do?p=HRCA&sw=w&issn=1562918X&v=2.1&it=r&id=GALE%7CA592664618&sid=googleScholar&linkaccess=abs

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Thompson, C. M. (2007). [Review of Review of Views of Seventeenth-Century Vietnam: Christoforo Borri on Cochinchina and Samuel Baron on Tonkin, by O. Dror & K. W. Taylor]. Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, 19(1), 213–215. https://www.jstor.org/stable/40860880

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Thompson, C. M. (2020). Indochina. In H. R. Slotten, R. L. Numbers, & D. N. Livingstone (Eds.), Cambridge History of Science, Vol 8: Modern Science in National, Transnational, and Global Context (pp. 593–608).