Chinese medicine in contemporary China : plurality and synthesis

Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. Hardcover. Near fine with small remainder mark to bottom edge and a few dog-ear creases (approx. 5 leaves only); no jacket.. Small quarto in blue cloth-backed boards; xiv, 407 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-395) and index. Contents: Timeline on Chinese History --; Geographical Map of China --; pt. I.; Chinese Medicine and the Problem of Plurality --; 1.; Orientations --; 2.; Plurality and Synthesis: Toward a Multisited Ethnography of Chinese Medicine --; pt. II.; Contemporary Chinese Medicine: Six Perspectives --; 3.; Hegemonic Pluralism: Chinese Medicine in a Socialist State --; 4.; Dilemmas and Tactical Agency: Patients and the Transformation of Chinese Medicine --; 5.; Shaping Chinese Medicine: Integration, Innovation, Synthesis --; 6.; Students, Disciples, and the Art of Social Networking: Becoming a Physician of Chinese Medicine --; 7.; Bianzheng lunzhi: The Emergent Pivot of Contemporary Chinese Medicine --; 8.; Creating Knowledge: The Origins of Plurality --; pt. III.; Anthropological Interventions --; 9.; Future of Chinese Medicine.; App.; Four Attempts at Systematizing Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination --; Bibliography of Premodern Chinese Medical Texts --; Bibliography of Modern Chinese and Western Sources. || Medicine -- China. Medicine, Chinese. Medicine Medicine, Chinese Traditional Médecine -- Chine. Médecine chinoise -- Chine. 44.98 alternative medicine. Medicine. Medicine, Chinese. Anthropologie Chinesische Medizin Ethnologie Medizinische Versorgung Soziologie Geneeskunde. Medicine, Chinese -- China. Medicine, Chinese.