Prescriptions for Virtuosity : : The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine / / Eric I. Karchmer.
Although Chinese medicine is assumed to be a timeless healing tradition, the encounter with modern biomedicine threatened its very existence and led to many radical changes. Prescriptions for Virtuosity tells the story of how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to the global dominance of biom...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (272 p.) :; 21 b/w illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Efficacies of the State
- 2. Geographies of the Body
- 3. Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis
- 4. New Textbooks, New Medicine
- 5. Chinese Medicine on the Margins
- 6. Prescriptions for Virtuosity
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index