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

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.

  • ISBN10 1800735561
  • ISBN13 9781800735569
  • Publish Date 8 July 2022
  • Publish Status Forthcoming
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Berghahn Books