Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis (Science and Cultural Theory)

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Release: 2002-06-12
Publisher: Duke University Press Books
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0822328720
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2,000 years? In Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China Volker Scheid presents an ethnography of Chinese medicine that seeks to answer these questions, but his ethnography is informed by some atypical approaches.
     Scheid, a medical anthropologist and practitioner of Chinese medicine in practice since 1983, has produced an ethnography that accepts plurality as an intrinsic and nonreducible aspect of medical practice. It has been widely noted that a patient visiting ten different practitioners of Chinese medicine may recei Download Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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