Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter Of Chinese Medicine (Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination)
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813330165 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 260 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-02-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorJudith Farquhar is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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.. 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. 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
Judith Farquhar is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.