{"product_id":"9781836950844","title":"Chinese Medicine in East Africa : An Intimacy with Strangers by Elisabeth Hsu","description":"Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the `placebo effect', the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why -? apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin -? locals would try out their `alternatively modern' formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307785073013,"sku":"9781836950844","price":31.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781836950844.jpg?v=1762805262","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781836950844","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}