Chinese Medicine in East Africa

Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College. She has published widely on medical anthropology, the history of science, technology and medicine in China and other fields.

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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’? Industrially-Produced Chinese Formula Medicines

Chapter 8. What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, Exotic Techniques and Potencies beyond Them

Chapter 9. ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and Pot



Conclusion



Index