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Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

By Elisabeth Hsu

Book information

Publisher
Berghahn Books
Year
2022
ISBN
9781800735576
DOI
10.1515/9781800735576
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2463101 bytes)
Series
Epistemologies of Healing; 20
Pages
440\440
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 03:29:24

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.

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