| Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine Revised Edition Contributor(s): Farquhar, Judith (Author) |
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ISBN: 0813330165 ISBN-13: 9780813330167 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $61.70 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1996 Annotation: 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. 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. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Medical | Alternative & Complementary Medicine |
| Dewey: 615.53 |
| Lexile Measure: 1550 |
| Series: Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination |
| Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.99" W x 8.95" (0.89 lbs) 275 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. It describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars, and demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. |