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Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine

By Judith Farquhar

Book information

Publisher
Westview Press
Year
1996
ISBN
0813330165, 9780813330167
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
71 MB (74836411 bytes)
Pages
260\273
Time added
2020-11-20 16:55:49

Description

This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms of knowledge. Knowing Practice will be of value not only to anthropologists interested in medical practice but also to historians and sociologists interested in the social life of technical expertise and traditional teachings.

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