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Capturing Quicksilver : The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore / Arielle A. Smith.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Epistemologies of Healing ; 17Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2018]Copyright date: ©2018Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781785337949
  • 9781785337956
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.5957 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Maps -- Introduction: Mercurial Assemblages and Analytical Bricolage -- 1. Chinese Medicine Unbound -- 2. From Imaginative Geography to Collective Lobotomy -- 3. Power in Technique and Techniques of Power -- 4. Making Sense and Sensation -- 5. Heat, Health, and the Experienced Environment -- 6. Of Nutrients and Nourishment -- 7. Positionality, Power, and the Politics of Representation -- Glossary of Transliterated Mandarin Chinese Terms -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: 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.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Maps -- Introduction: Mercurial Assemblages and Analytical Bricolage -- 1. Chinese Medicine Unbound -- 2. From Imaginative Geography to Collective Lobotomy -- 3. Power in Technique and Techniques of Power -- 4. Making Sense and Sensation -- 5. Heat, Health, and the Experienced Environment -- 6. Of Nutrients and Nourishment -- 7. Positionality, Power, and the Politics of Representation -- Glossary of Transliterated Mandarin Chinese Terms -- Bibliography -- Index

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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