Chinese Medicine in East Africa : : An Intimacy with Strangers / / 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 t...
Saved in:
| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
|---|---|
| VerfasserIn: | |
| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
20 |
| Online Access: | |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
| Tags: |
Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
|
| LEADER | 03886nam a22006615i 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | 9781800735576 | ||
| 003 | DE-B1597 | ||
| 005 | 20221004111318.0 | ||
| 006 | m|||||o||d|||||||| | ||
| 007 | cr || |||||||| | ||
| 008 | 221004t20222022nyu fo d z eng d | ||
| 010 | |a 2022004881 | ||
| 020 | |a 9781800735576 | ||
| 024 | 7 | |a 10.1515/9781800735576 |2 doi | |
| 035 | |a (DE-B1597)635725 | ||
| 040 | |a DE-B1597 |b eng |c DE-B1597 |e rda | ||
| 041 | 0 | |a eng | |
| 044 | |a nyu |c US-NY | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a R651.A353 |
| 050 | 4 | |a R651.A353 H78 2022 | |
| 072 | 7 | |a SOC002010 |2 bisacsh | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Hsu, Elisabeth, |e author. |4 aut |4 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Chinese Medicine in East Africa : |b An Intimacy with Strangers / |c Elisabeth Hsu. |
| 264 | 1 | |a New York; |a Oxford : |b Berghahn Books, |c [2022] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2022 | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (440 p.) | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a computer |b c |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a online resource |b cr |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 347 | |a text file |b PDF |2 rda | ||
| 490 | 0 | |a Epistemologies of Healing ; |v 20 | |
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Frontmatter -- |t Contents -- |t List of Illustrations -- |t Acknowledgements -- |t A Note on Transcription -- |t Introduction -- |t Part I. Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space -- |t 1. Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter -- |t 2. Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create -- |t Part II. Emplacement, Emplotment, ‘Empotment’ -- |t 3. Patients, Practitioners and Their Pots -- |t 4. The Patients -- |t 5. The Practitioners -- |t 6. The Pots: Orientations -- |t Part III. Pots, ‘Pots’ and Pots -- |t 7. What Is in a ‘Pot’? Industrially Produced Chinese Formula Medicines -- |t 8. What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, and the Potencies of Pots -- |t 9. ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and Pot -- |t Conclusion. Kaleidoscopic Refractions -- |t References -- |t Index |
| 506 | 0 | |a restricted access |u http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec |f online access with authorization |2 star | |
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
| 538 | |a Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
| 588 | 0 | |a Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Medicine, Chinese |x Practice |z Africa, East |x History |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Medicine, Chinese |z Africa, East |x History |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Traditional medicine |z Africa, East |x History |y 21st century. | |
| 650 | 7 | |a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. |2 bisacsh | |
| 773 | 0 | 8 | |i Title is part of eBook package: |d De Gruyter |t Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022 |z 9783110997668 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800735576 |
| 856 | 4 | 0 | |u https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800735576 |
| 856 | 4 | 2 | |3 Cover |u https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800735576/original |
| 912 | |a 978-3-11-099766-8 Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022 |b 2022 | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_CL_SN | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_EBKALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_ECL_SN | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_EEBKALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_ESSHALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_PPALL | ||
| 912 | |a EBA_SSHALL | ||
| 912 | |a GBV-deGruyter-alles | ||
| 912 | |a PDA11SSHE | ||
| 912 | |a PDA13ENGE | ||
| 912 | |a PDA17SSHEE | ||
| 912 | |a PDA5EBK | ||