Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

Elisabeth Hsu (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

440 Seiten

2025
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781836950844 (ISBN)

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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.

Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College. She has published widely on medical anthropology, the history of science, technology and medicine in China and other fields.

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Introduction

Part I:Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space

Chapter 1. Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter

Chapter 2. Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create

Part II: Emplacement, Emplotment, ‘Empotment’

Chapter 3. Patients, Practitioners, and Their Pots

Chapter 4. The Patients

Chapter 5. The Practitioners

Chapter 6. The Pots: Orientations

Part III: Pots, ‘Pots’ and Pots

Chapter 7. What Is in a ‘Pot’? Industrially-Produced Chinese Formula Medicines

Chapter 8. What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, Exotic Techniques and Potencies beyond Them

Chapter 9. ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and Pot

Conclusion

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	03.06.2025
Reihe/Serie	Epistemologies of Healing
Zusatzinfo	Bibliography; Index; 16 Illustrations
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie ► Alternative Heilverfahren
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde ► Phytotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-13	9781836950844 / 9781836950844
Zustand	Neuware