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Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.

Table of Contents

Introduction | 1
1. Efficacies of the State | 29
2. Geographies of the Body | 69
3. Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis | 107
4. New Textbooks, New Medicine | 140
5. Chinese Medicine on the Margins | 180
6. Prescriptions for Virtuosity | 215
Epilogue | 231
Acknowledgments | 237
Notes | 243
References | 253
Index | 267

Prescriptions for Virtuosity

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      Publisher Fordham University Press
      Published 20 September 2022
      ISBN-13 9780823299836
      978-0823299836
      ISBN-10 082329983X
      Also in:
      Asian history Complementary and alternative medicine

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction | 1
      1. Efficacies of the State | 29
      2. Geographies of the Body | 69
      3. Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis | 107
      4. New Textbooks, New Medicine | 140
      5. Chinese Medicine on the Margins | 180
      6. Prescriptions for Virtuosity | 215
      Epilogue | 231
      Acknowledgments | 237
      Notes | 243
      References | 253
      Index | 267

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