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CHINESE MEDICINE IN EAST AFRICA IBD

BERGHAHN BOOKS
07 / 2025
9781836950844
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Sinopsis

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.