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
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 398
- Language English
- URL http://berghahnbooks.com/title/HsuChinese