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...
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Hsu, Elisabeth, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Chinese Medicine in East Africa : An Intimacy with Strangers / Elisabeth Hsu. New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2022] ©2022 1 online resource (440 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Epistemologies of Healing ; 20 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 restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 04. Okt 2022) Medicine, Chinese Practice Africa, East History 21st century. Medicine, Chinese Africa, East History 21st century. Traditional medicine Africa, East History 21st century. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2022 9783110997668 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800735576 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800735576 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800735576/original |
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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 |
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