Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

by Elisabeth Hsu

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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...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1800735561

ISBN13:9781800735569

Release Date:July 2022

Publisher:Berghahn Books

Length:440 Pages

Weight:1.63 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 9.1" x 6.1"

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