Chinese Medicine in East Africa : An Intimacy with Strangers Hardback
by Elisabeth Hsu
Part of the Epistemologies of Healing series
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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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- Pages:440 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:08/07/2022
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- ISBN:9781800735569
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:440 pages
- Publisher:Berghahn Books
- Publication Date:08/07/2022
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- ISBN:9781800735569
