{"product_id":"chinese-medicine-in-east-africa-an-intimacy-with-strangers-9781800735569","title":"Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tBased 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Elisabeth Hsu expertly weaves ethnography and theory to provide the reader with a lived experience of a journey of Chinese medical practices in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda … Hsu's work is rich with anthropological theory to help make meaning of her findings and, in turn, generously contributes to theory by virtue of the extensive findings and analyses presented.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Paul I Kadetz\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Global Health Equity\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“This is a wonderful and very compelling book. Content is exhilarating, rich and intense throughout in a highly original fashion.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• Julie Laplante\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Ottowa\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \tList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e \tA Note on Transcription\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I:Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter  \u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: Emplacement, Emplotment, ‘Empotment’\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Patients, Practitioners, and Their \u003cem\u003ePots\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Patients\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Practitioners\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e The \u003cem\u003ePots\u003c\/em\u003e: Orientations\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: Pots, ‘Pots’ and \u003cem\u003ePots\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e What Is in a ‘Pot’? Industrially-Produced Chinese Formula Medicines\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, Exotic Techniques and Potencies beyond Them\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and \u003cem\u003ePot\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eConclusion\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042747351383,"sku":"9781800735569","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/chinese-medicine-in-east-africa-an-intimacy-with-strangers-9781800735569","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}