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Chinese Medicine in East Africa : An Intimacy with Strangers by Elisabeth Hsu is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>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.<br></p>

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Author

Elisabeth Hsu

Publisher

Berghahn Books, Incorporated

Published

2022

Language

EN

ISBN

9781800735569

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Anthropology, Science