Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers by Hsu, Elisabeth

Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781836950844)

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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

$39.95
Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers by Hsu, Elisabeth

Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

$39.95
Format: Paperback
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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: Elisabeth Hsu
ISBN-10: 1836950845
ISBN-13: 9781836950844
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2025
Pages: 440
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.89d
By Elisabeth Hsu
By Elisabeth Hsu
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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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