Capturing Quicksilver : : The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore / / Arielle A. Smith.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Smith, Arielle A.,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 17
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cutting-edge biomedical facilities and research. Seeking to emphasize Singapore’s capacity for “modern medicine” and strengthen their burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry, this image has explicitly excluded Chinese medicine – despite its tremendous popularity amongst Singaporeans from all walks of life, and particularly amongst Singapore’s ethnic Chinese majority. This book examines the use and practice of Chinese medicine in Singapore, especially in everyday life, and contributes to anthropological debates regarding the post-colonial intersection of knowledge, identity, and governmentality, and to transnational studies of Chinese medicine as a permeable, plural, and fluid practice.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Maps -- Introduction: Mercurial Assemblages and Analytical Bricolage -- 1. Chinese Medicine Unbound -- 2. From Imaginative Geography to Collective Lobotomy -- 3. Power in Technique and Techniques of Power -- 4. Making Sense and Sensation -- 5. Heat, Health, and the Experienced Environment -- 6. Of Nutrients and Nourishment -- 7. Positionality, Power, and the Politics of Representation -- Glossary of Transliterated Mandarin Chinese Terms -- Bibliography -- Index