Eric I. Karchmer

Prescriptions for Virtuosity

The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. September 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 152mm x 227mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 428g
• ISBN-13: 9780823299836
• ISBN-10: 082329983X
• Artikelnr.: 62538521

Autorenporträt

Eric I. Karchmer, Ph.D., M.D. (China), L.Ac. is Visiting Assistant Professor at China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1
1. Efficacies of the State 29
2. Geographies of the Body 69
3. Frail Bodies and the Problem of Diagnosis 107
4. New Textbooks, New Medicine 140
5. Chinese Medicine on the Margins 180
6. Prescriptions for Virtuosity 215
Epilogue 231
Acknowledgments 237
Notes 243
References 253
Index 267