List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Timeline on Chinese History
Geographical Map of China
Introduction
Part I: Chinese Medicine and the Problem of Plurality
1. Orientations
2. Plurality and Synthesis: Toward a Multisited Ethnography of
Chinese Medicine
Part II: Contemporary Chinese Medicine: Six Perspectives
3. Hegemonic Pluralism: Chinese Medicine in a Socialist State
4. Dilemmas and Tactical Agency: Patients and the Transformation of
Chinese Medicine
5. Shaping Chinese Medicine: Integration, Innovation, Synthesis
6. Students, Disciples, and the Art of Social Networking: Becoming
a Physician of Chinese Medicine
7. Bianzheng lunzhi: The Emergent Pivot of Contemporary Chinese
Medicine
8. Creating Knowledge: The Origins of Plurality
Part III: Anthropological Interventions
9. The Future of Chinese Medicine
Appendix. Four Attempts at Systematizing Pattern Differentiation
and Treatment Determination
Notes
Bibliography of Premodern Chinese Medical Texts
Bibliography of Modern Chinese and Western Sources
Index
Volker Scheid is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the
Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, at
the University of London.
“Volker Scheid reveals the dynamic context of Chinese medicine and
its continuous process of encounter, interpretation, negotiation,
and synthesis. This study’s depth of detail and breathtaking
interdisciplinary scope provide a multidimensional understanding of
Chinese medicine and the forces that nourish, constrain, and
transform it. Any serious scholar or practitioner will want to read
and reread this groundbreaking volume.”—Ted J. Kaptchuk, author of
The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine
“Volker Scheid’s book is a seriously original work. One of its
great strengths is Scheid’s refusal to see Chinese medicine as
either unitary or centred. He insists on its plurality, with
incursions of Western biomedicine as just more elements within an
already multiple field of medical practices. The other great
strength is Scheid’s refusal to see medicine as static. He brings
to the fore the creative interplay between Chinese and Western
traditions, the dynamism that can emerge in the intersection of
radically disparate techniques, remedies, and conceptual schemes.
Along the way, Scheid develops a fascinating epistemology and
ontology of agency, human and nonhuman, that makes sense of the
plurality and syntheses that he confronts us with. This is a
path-breaking book—one that could be a model for future work in the
history of medicine and in cultural studies at large.”—Andrew
Pickering, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
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