Chinese Medicine in East Africa

An Intimacy with Strangers

By: Elisabeth Hsu

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Hardcover | 8 July 2022

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440 Pages

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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.

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"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." â¢ Paul I Kadetz, University of Global Health Equity

"This is a wonderful and very compelling book. Content is exhilarating, rich and intense throughout in a highly original fashion." â¢ Julie Laplante, University of Ottowa

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