Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)

By: Judith Farquhar

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Synopsis: This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms of knowledge. Knowing Practice will be of value not only to anthropologists interested in medical practice but also to historians and sociologists interested in the social life of technical expertise and traditional teachings.

Book Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9780429979071
Related ISBNs:: 9780429499449, 9780813385334, 9780813385334, 9780813330167, 9780813330167, 9780367316495, 9780367316495
Publisher:: Taylor and Francis
Date of Addition:: 06/26/20
Copyrighted By:: Taylor and Francis
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Medicine, Politics and Government, Sociology
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.