Sonya Pritzker

Gebundenes Buch

Living Translation

Language and the Search for Resonance in U.S. Chinese Medicine

Beschreibung

Examines the way American teachers and students of Chinese medicine search for resonance in translated texts and concepts. Traces the translation from text to practice and considers the social, political, historical, moral, and personal dimensions involved in the transnational production of knowledge about health, illness, and the body. Integrating theoretical perspectives with carefully grounded ethnographic analyses of everyday interaction and experience.

Autor

Sonya Pritzker is an anthropologist in the Department of Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine & Health Services Research, at the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine. She is a researcher at the UCLA Center for East West Medicine and research advisor in the doctoral program at Pacific College of Oriental Medicine in San Diego.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781782383109
• ISBN-10: 1782383107
• Artikelnr.: 41354822