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Chinese Medicine in East Africa - An Intimacy with Strangers (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,139
Discovery Miles 31 390
Chinese Medicine in East Africa - An Intimacy with Strangers (Hardcover): Elisabeth Hsu

Chinese Medicine in East Africa - An Intimacy with Strangers (Hardcover)

Elisabeth Hsu

Series: Epistemologies of Healing

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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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Imprint: Berghahn Books
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Epistemologies of Healing
Release date: July 2022
Authors: Elisabeth Hsu
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 978-1-80073-556-9
Categories: Books > Health, Home & Family > Mind, body & spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
Books > Medicine > Complementary medicine > Traditional medicine & remedies > General
Books > Science & Mathematics > Biology, life sciences > Human biology & related topics > Medical anthropology
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Mind, Body & Spirit > Alternative therapies, healing & health
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LSN: 1-80073-556-1
Barcode: 9781800735569

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