图书标签: 人类学 医学人类学 中医 anthropology medical Transnationalism STS 身体医疗史
发表于2024-11-21
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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 neighbourhood 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 emphasizes 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.
我还是感觉这种民族志写作太模糊太“不实在”了。。。
评分牛逼哄哄,每一章都带给我很多新想法==
评分quite nice
评分quite nice
评分有关中医的人类学和STS研究。作者考察了中国和加州的中医发展,讨论了中医的“全球化”如何实现,和如何定义什么是“正宗”中医当中对“中国”,“中国文化”,“中医”不同角度的看法,切入的角度非常有趣。
By Matthew Wolf-Meyer I’m no scholar of traditional Chinese medicine, but every year in my Medical Anthropology undergraduate class I include an ethnography of Chinese medicine in an effort to debunk the idea that there’s anything “traditional” about ...
评分这是一本那种很后现代的民族志。正如项飙在他自己的同样关于科学技术与全球化的民族志的序言里说的,这种后现代写作的确挺令人如坠云里雾里的。基本上全书的线索性形容词就是multiple, fluid, open-ended, negotiable, contesting, discrepant, effervesce, diverse, creative,...
评分By Matthew Wolf-Meyer I’m no scholar of traditional Chinese medicine, but every year in my Medical Anthropology undergraduate class I include an ethnography of Chinese medicine in an effort to debunk the idea that there’s anything “traditional” about ...
评分By Matthew Wolf-Meyer I’m no scholar of traditional Chinese medicine, but every year in my Medical Anthropology undergraduate class I include an ethnography of Chinese medicine in an effort to debunk the idea that there’s anything “traditional” about ...
评分By Matthew Wolf-Meyer I’m no scholar of traditional Chinese medicine, but every year in my Medical Anthropology undergraduate class I include an ethnography of Chinese medicine in an effort to debunk the idea that there’s anything “traditional” about ...
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