Chinese Medicine in East Africa: An Intimacy with Strangers

By Elisabeth Hsu

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1836950845
• ISBN13: 9781836950844
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 1.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"