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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- English
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Table of contents
- Chinese Medicine in East Africa
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- A Note on Transcription
- Introduction
- Part I. Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space
- Chapter 1. Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter
- Chapter 2. Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create
- Part II. Emplacement, Emplotment, ‘Empotment’
- Chapter 3. Patients, Practitioners and Their Pots
- Chapter 4. The Patients
- Chapter 5. The Practitioners
- Chapter 6. The Pots: Orientations
- Part III. Pots, ‘Pots’ and Pots
- Chapter 7. What Is in a ‘Pot’?
- Chapter 8. What Makes a Pot Efficacious?
- Chapter 9. ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and Pot
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
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