Capturing Quicksilver

The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-78533-794-9
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 324 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

Reihe: Epistemologies of Healing

Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cutting-edge biomedical facilities and research. Seeking to emphasize Singapore’s capacity for “modern medicine” and strengthen their burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry, this image has explicitly excluded Chinese medicine – despite its tremendous popularity amongst Singaporeans from all walks of life, and particularly amongst Singapore’s ethnic Chinese majority. This book examines the use and practice of Chinese medicine in Singapore, especially in everyday life, and contributes to anthropological debates regarding the post-colonial intersection of knowledge, identity, and governmentality, and to transnational studies of Chinese medicine as a permeable, plural, and fluid practice.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Smith, Arielle A.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Komplementäre Medizin, Asiatische Medizin (TCM), Heilpraktiker
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Soziologie & Psychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction: Mercurial Assemblages and Analytical Bricolage

Chapter 1. Chinese Medicine Unbound

Chapter 2. From Imaginative Geography to Collective Lobotomy

Chapter 3. Power in Technique and Techniques of Power

Chapter 4. Making Sense and Sensation

Chapter 5. Heat, Health, and the Experienced Environment

Chapter 6. Of Nutrients and Nourishment

Chapter 7. Positionality, Power, and the Politics of Representation

Glossary of Transliterated Mandarin Chinese Terms

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith, Arielle A.
Arielle A. Smith completed her doctorate and postgraduate teaching in medical anthropology at the University of Oxford (2004-2010). She subsequently taught at the University of Montana (2011-2012) and as traveling faculty for International Honors Program/SIT (2012-2014). Most recently, she conducted postdoctoral research at Cermes3 (a joint unit of CNRS, EHESS, and Inserm) in Paris (2015), and preliminary research on anthropological reflexivity and tribal health/ healing in the USA (2016 to date).