Chinese Medicine in East Africa

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Chinese Medicine in East Africa is written by Elisabeth Hsu and published by Berghahn Books. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 180073557X (ISBN 10) and 9781800735576 (ISBN 13).

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.