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Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine Eric I. Karchmer
Prescriptions for Virtuosity: The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine
Eric I. Karchmer
Prescriptions for Virtuosity documents how Chinese medicine has been transformed by the postcolonial encounter with biomedicine. It shows how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to their postcolonial predicament through hybrid innovation, developing new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society.
272 pages, 21 b/w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 20, 2022 |
| ISBN13 | 9780823299843 |
| Publishers | Fordham University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 553 g |
| Language | English |