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Author(s): Mei Zhan
ISBN(s): 9780822343844, 0822343843
Edition: Illustrated
File Details: PDF, 1.81 MB
Year: 2009
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0822343843 
ISBN 13: 9780822343844
Author: Mei Zhan

Traditional Chinese medicine is often portrayed as an enduring system of therapeutic knowledge that has become globalized in recent decades. In Other-Worldly, Mei Zhan argues that the discourses and practices called “traditional Chinese medicine” are made through, rather than prior to, translocal encounters and entanglements. Zhan spent a decade following practitioners, teachers, and advocates of Chinese medicine through clinics, hospitals, schools, and grassroots organizations in Shanghai and the San Francisco Bay Area. Drawing on that ethnographic research, she demonstrates that the everyday practice of Chinese medicine is about much more than writing herbal prescriptions and inserting acupuncture needles. “Traditional Chinese medicine” is also made and remade through efforts to create a preventive medicine for the “proletariat world,” reinvent it for cosmopolitan middle-class aspirations, produce clinical “miracles,” translate knowledge and authority, and negotiate marketing strategies and medical ethics. Whether discussing the presentation of Chinese medicine at a health fair sponsored by a Silicon Valley corporation, or how the inclusion of a traditional Chinese medicine clinic authenticates the “California” appeal of an upscale residential neighborhood in Shanghai, Zhan emphasizes that unexpected encounters and interactions are not anomalies in the structure of Chinese medicine. Instead, they are constitutive of its irreducibly complex and open-ended worlds. Zhan proposes an ethnography of “worlding” as an analytic for engaging and illuminating emergent cultural processes such as those she describes. Rather than taking “cultural difference” as the starting point for anthropological inquiries, this analytic reveals how various terms of difference—for example, “traditional,” “Chinese,” and “medicine”—are invented, negotiated, and deployed translocally. Other-Worldly is a theoretically innovative and ethnographically rich account of the worlding of Chinese medicine.

Other Worldly Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames 1st Table of contents:

PART ONE: ENTANGLEMENTS
One: Get On Track With the World
Cosmopolitan Aspirations
“Serve the People of the World”
“Get On Track with the World”
Reinventing Traditional Chinese Medicine In California
Corporatizing Cosmopolitan Medicine
Crafing a World of “Subhealth”
Two: Hands, Hearts, and Dreams
The “American Disease”
Ambiguous Commodities
Unsettled Hearts
California Dreams
Redefining Expertise
PART TWO: NEGOTIATIONS
Three: Does It Take a Miracle?
Science and “Other” Knowledges
Producing Marginality
From Clinical Success to “Miracles”
Making “Miracles,” Transfguring Science
Four: Translating Knowledges
Familiar Strangers
Taking Notes
Worlding “ Tradition”
Pains and Tremors
Talking “Science”
PART THREE: DISLOCATIONS
Five: Engendering Families an Knowledges, Sideways
Gender and Kinship In and of Traditional Chinese Medicine
The Gendering of Family and Medicine
The Daughter Who Displaced the Son
A Grandfather’s “American Way of Tinking”
Rebellious Daughters
Six: Discrepant Distances
From Empires to Disparate Connectivity
Uncanny Alliances
Politicizing Science
Unfulfilled Yearnings
EPILOGUE
Rethinking Science Studies
Reimagining Anthropology
NOTES
Preface
Introduction
1. Get On Track With the World
2. Hands, Hearts, and Dreams
3. Does It Take a Miracle?
4. Translating Knowledges
5. Engendering Families and Knowledges
6. Discrepant Distances

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