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Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers (Epistemologies of Healing Book 20)

Elisabeth Hsu

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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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers (Epistemologies of Healing Book 20). To get started finding Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers (Epistemologies of Healing Book 20), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 589

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

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Release: 2022

ISBN: 180073557X

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.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers (Epistemologies of Healing Book 20). To get started finding Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers (Epistemologies of Healing Book 20), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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