Capturing quicksilver : the position, power, and plasticity of Chinese medicine in Singapore / Arielle A. Smith.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, Arielle A., author.

Series:

Epistemologies of healing ; Volume 17.

Epistemologies of healing ; Volume 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Chinese--Singapore.

Medicine, Chinese.

Medicine--Singapore.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, 2018.

Summary:

"Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cutting-edge biomedical facilities and research. Seeking to emphasize Singapore's capacity for "modern medicine" and strengthen their burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry, this image has explicitly excluded Chinese medicine - despite its tremendous popularity amongst Singaporeans from all walks of life, and particularly amongst Singapore's ethnic Chinese majority. This book examines the use and practice of Chinese medicine in Singapore, especially in everyday life, and contributes to anthropological debates regarding the post-colonial intersection of knowledge, identity, and governmentality, and to transnational studies of Chinese medicine as a permeable, plural, and fluid practice"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Mercurial assemblages and analytical bricolage

Chinese medicine unbound

From imaginative geography to collective lobotomy

Power in technique and techniques of power

Making sense and sensation

Heat, health, and the experienced environment

Of nutrients and nourishment

Positionality, power, and the politics of representation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781785337956

1785337955

OCLC:

1037946376