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Prescriptions for virtuosity : the postcolonial struggle of Chinese medicine / Eric I. Karchmer.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Karchmer, Eric I., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Chinese--History.
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Medicine--China--History.
- Medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (242 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1. Efficacies of the State
- 2. Geographies of the Body
- 3. Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis
- 4. New Textbooks, New Medicine
- 5. Chinese Medicine on the Margins
- 6. Prescriptions for Virtuosity
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Karchmer, Eric I. Prescriptions for Virtuosity
- ISBN:
- 9780823299867
- 0823299864
- 9780823299850
- 0823299856
- OCLC:
- 1338642567
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