Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

By:

Elisabeth Hsu

Format:

Hardback

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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

July 8th, 2022

Author

Elisabeth Hsu

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Pages

440

Series

Epistemologies of Healing

ISBN-13

9781800735569

Product ID

35564327

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