Chinese Medicine in East Africa

Elisabeth Hsu is Professor of Anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College. She has published widely on medical anthropology, the history of science, technology and medicine in China and other fields.

“Elisabeth Hsu expertly weaves ethnography and theory to provide the reader with a lived experience of a journey of Chinese medical practices in Tanzania, Kenya, and Uganda … Hsu's work is rich with anthropological theory to help make meaning of her findings and, in turn, generously contributes to theory by virtue of the extensive findings and analyses presented.” • Paul I Kadetz, University of Global Health Equity“This is a wonderful and very compelling book. Content is exhilarating, rich and intense throughout in a highly original fashion.” • Julie Laplante, University of Ottowa

• List of IllustrationsA Note on TranscriptionIntroductionPart I:Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of SpaceChapter 1. Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter  Chapter 2. Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They CreatePart II: Emplacement, Emplotment, ‘Empotment’Chapter 3. Patients, Practitioners, and Their PotsChapter 4. The PatientsChapter 5. The PractitionersChapter 6. The Pots: OrientationsPart III: Pots, ‘Pots’ and PotsChapter 7. What Is in a ‘Pot’? Industrially-Produced Chinese Formula MedicinesChapter 8. What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, Exotic Techniques and Potencies beyond ThemChapter 9. ‘The Chinese Antimalarial’ as ‘Pot’ and PotConclusionIndex