Chinese Medicine in East Africa
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Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

Elisabeth Hsu

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  2. English
  3. PDF
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eBook - PDF

Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

Elisabeth Hsu

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About This Book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781800735576
Edition
1
Topic
Sozialwissenschaften
Subtopic
Kultur- & Sozialanthropologie

Table of contents

  1. Chinese Medicine in East Africa
  2. Contents
  3. Illustrations
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. A Note on Transcription
  6. Introduction
  7. Part I. Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space
  8. Chapter 1. Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter
  9. Chapter 2. Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create
  10. Part II. Emplacement, Emplotment, ‘Empotment’
  11. Chapter 3. Patients, Practitioners and Their Pots
  12. Chapter 4. The Patients
  13. Chapter 5. The Practitioners
  14. Chapter 6. The Pots: Orientations
  15. Part III. Pots, ‘Pots’ and Pots
  16. Chapter 7. What Is in a ‘Pot’?
  17. Chapter 8. What Makes a Pot Efficacious?
  18. Chapter 9. ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and Pot
  19. Conclusion
  20. References
  21. Index
Citation styles for Chinese Medicine in East Africa

APA 6 Citation

Hsu, E. (2022). Chinese Medicine in East Africa (1st ed.). Berghahn Books. Retrieved from https://www.perlego.com/book/3533979/chinese-medicine-in-east-africa-an-intimacy-with-strangers-pdf (Original work published 2022)

Chicago Citation

Hsu, Elisabeth. (2022) 2022. Chinese Medicine in East Africa. 1st ed. Berghahn Books. https://www.perlego.com/book/3533979/chinese-medicine-in-east-africa-an-intimacy-with-strangers-pdf.

Harvard Citation

Hsu, E. (2022) Chinese Medicine in East Africa. 1st edn. Berghahn Books. Available at: https://www.perlego.com/book/3533979/chinese-medicine-in-east-africa-an-intimacy-with-strangers-pdf (Accessed: 15 October 2022).

MLA 7 Citation

Hsu, Elisabeth. Chinese Medicine in East Africa. 1st ed. Berghahn Books, 2022. Web. 15 Oct. 2022.