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Product details:
- Edition number 1
- Publisher Berghahn Books
- Date of Publication 1 July 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781836950844
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages440 pages
- Language English 700
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Long description:
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 expertly weaves ethnography and theory to provide the reader with a lived experience of a journey of Chinese medical practices in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda ? Hsu's work is rich with anthropological theory to help make meaning of her findings and, in turn, generously contributes to theory by virtue of the extensive findings and analyses presented.? ? Paul I Kadetz, University of Global Health Equity
?This is a wonderful and very compelling book. Content is exhilarating, rich and intense throughout in a highly original fashion.? ? Julie Laplante, University of Ottowa
Table of Contents:
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A Note on Transcription
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
