Capturing Quicksilver : : The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore / / Arielle A. Smith.
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 ex...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (324 p.) |
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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