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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 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

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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