ISBN:
9781800735569
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 429 Seiten
,
Karten
Series Statement:
Epistemologies of healing Volume 20
Series Statement:
Epistemologies of healing
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Hsu, Elisabeth Chinese medicine in East Africa
DDC:
610.96
Keywords:
Medicine, Chinese History 21st century
;
Medicine, Chinese Practice 21st century
;
History
;
Traditional medicine History 21st century
Abstract:
Introduction -- Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space -- Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter -- Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create -- Emplacement, Emplotment, 'Empotment' -- Patients, Practitioners and Their Pots -- The Patients -- The Practitioners -- The Pots: Orientations -- Pots, 'Pots' and Pots -- What Is in a 'Pot'? Industrially-Produced Chinese Formula Medicines -- What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, Exotic Techniques and -- Potencies beyond Them -- 'The Chinese Antimalarial' as 'Pot' and Pot -- Conclusion. Kaleidoscopic Refractions.
Abstract:
"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"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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