Mei Zhan

Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames

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Produktbeschreibung

A transnational ethnography of traditional Chinese medicine practitioners in China and the US.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: November 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 383g
• ISBN-13: 9780822343844
• ISBN-10: 0822343843
• Artikelnr.: 26492116

Autorenporträt

Mei Zhan

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
Part One. Entanglements
1. Get on Track with the World 31
2. Hands, Hearts, and Dreams 63
Part Two. Negotiations
3. Does It Take a Miracle? 91
4. Translating Knowledges 119
Part Three. Dislocations
5. Engendering Families and Knowledges, Sideways 145
6. Discrepant Distances 175
Epilogue 195
Notes 203
References 217
Index 229