Chinese Medicine in East Africa

Name: Chinese Medicine in East Africa
Brand: Berghahn Books
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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 - 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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Binding:: Paperback
Edition:: 1
Number of Pages:: 440
Release Date:: 2025-07-01
Publication Date:: 2025-07-01
Publisher:: Berghahn Books
Languages:: Original: English
ISBN10:: 1836950845
ISBN13:: 9781836950844
Weight:: 633 g
Height:: 152 cm
Width:: 229 cm
Thickness:: 24 cm

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