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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| Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Epistemologies of Healing ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (440 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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