Chinese Medicine In East Africa: An Intimacy With Strangers (Epistemologies Of Healing, 20)

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.

• | Author: Elisabeth Hsu
• | Publisher: Berghahn Books
• | Publication Date: Jul 08, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 440 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Medical
• | ISBN-10: 1800735561
• | ISBN-13: 9781800735569