Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners...
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Author: Elisabeth Hsu
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Language: English
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Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers by Hsu, Elisabeth

Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

$2,785.38

Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

$2,785.38
Author: Elisabeth Hsu
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

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: Elisabeth Hsu
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 07/08/2022
Pages: 440
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.63lbs
Size: 6.14h x 9.06w x 1.10d
ISBN: 9781800735569

About the Author
Hsu, Elisabeth: -

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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