Chinese Medicine in East Africa : : An Intimacy with Strangers / / Elisabeth Hsu.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022
• VerfasserIn: Hsu, Elisabeth,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Epistemologies of Healing ; 20
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (440 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations --; Acknowledgements --; A Note on Transcription --; Introduction --; Part I. Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space --; 1. Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter --; 2. Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create --; Part II. Emplacement, Emplotment, ‘Empotment’ --; 3. Patients, Practitioners and Their Pots --; 4. The Patients --; 5. The Practitioners --; 6. The Pots: Orientations --; Part III. Pots, ‘Pots’ and Pots --; 7. What Is in a ‘Pot’? Industrially Produced Chinese Formula Medicines --; 8. What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, and the Potencies of Pots --; 9. ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and Pot --; Conclusion. Kaleidoscopic Refractions --; References --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781800735576; 9783110997668
• DOI: 10.1515/9781800735576
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elisabeth Hsu.

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin - locals would try out their ‘alternatively modern’ formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.