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Science, Technology and Society, 2013
This article argues that science was inextricably bound up with politics in the life and career o... more This article argues that science was inextricably bound up with politics in the life and career of Tốn Thất Tùng. Nationalism motivated Tùng to join the Việt Minh fight against the French in the First Indochina War, but it was his colonial-era training as a surgeon that made him invaluable for the resistance. The widespread recognition of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in 1954 gave Tùng, in turn, access to human and material resources that would not have been available otherwise. With these resources, including equipment and human livers, Tùng developed surgical techniques that enabled him to publish in internationally recognised journals. In return, Tùng trained doctors for the state, focusing on knowledge that helped the DRV battle the Republic of Vietnam’s and the United States’ (US) armies. During the 1960s, Tùng engaged in medical diplomacy that allowed those against US intervention, yet uncomfortable with DRV politics, to support the North. For his part, Tùng tapped ...
Science, Technology and Society, 2013
This article argues that science was inextricably bound up with politics in the life and career o... more This article argues that science was inextricably bound up with politics in the life and career of Tốn Thất Tùng. Nationalism motivated Tùng to join the Việt Minh fight against the French in the First Indochina War, but it was his colonial-era training as a surgeon that made him invaluable for the resistance. The widespread recognition of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (DRV) in 1954 gave Tùng, in turn, access to human and material resources that would not have been available otherwise. With these resources, including equipment and human livers, Tùng developed surgical techniques that enabled him to publish in internationally recognised journals. In return, Tùng trained doctors for the state, focusing on knowledge that helped the DRV battle the Republic of Vietnam’s and the United States’ (US) armies. During the 1960s, Tùng engaged in medical diplomacy that allowed those against US intervention, yet uncomfortable with DRV politics, to support the North. For his part, Tùng tapped ...