Other-Worldly Making Chinese Medicine Through Transnational Frames

Name: Other-Worldly Making Chinese Medicine Through Transnational Frames
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ISBN: 9780822343844

ISBN-10: 0822343843

ISBN-13: 9780822343844

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mei Zhan

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Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. InOther-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called "traditional Chinese medicine" are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Zhan spent a decade following practitioners, teachers, and advocates of Chinese medicine through clinics, hospitals, schools, and grassroots organizations in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing on that ethnographic research, she demonstrates that the everyday practice of Chinese medicine is about much more than writing herbal prescriptions and inserting…

Book details

List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 0.24" wide x 0.35" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



Preface and Acknowledgments


Introduction



Entanglements



Get on Track with the world



Hands, Hearts, and Dreams



Negotiations



Does it Take a Miracle?



Translating Knowledge



Dislocations



Engendering Families and Knowledges, Sideways



Discrepant Distances


Epilogue


Notes


References


Index