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.
發表於2024-11-04
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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 ...
評分這是一本那種很後現代的民族誌。正如項飆在他自己的同樣關於科學技術與全球化的民族誌的序言裏說的,這種後現代寫作的確挺令人如墜雲裏霧裏的。基本上全書的綫索性形容詞就是multiple, fluid, open-ended, negotiable, contesting, discrepant, effervesce, diverse, creative,...
評分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 ...
評分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 ...
評分這是一本那種很後現代的民族誌。正如項飆在他自己的同樣關於科學技術與全球化的民族誌的序言裏說的,這種後現代寫作的確挺令人如墜雲裏霧裏的。基本上全書的綫索性形容詞就是multiple, fluid, open-ended, negotiable, contesting, discrepant, effervesce, diverse, creative,...
圖書標籤: 人類學 醫學人類學 中醫 anthropology medical Transnationalism STS 身體醫療史
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評分作者試圖解釋當代中醫知識權威與醫療實踐的構建不是一個自遙遠時空的連續統一體,其在跨區域傳播的過程中不斷結閤每個地方(本書以加州和上海為例)的地方性差異(空間、性彆傳統、傳播機製、生活方式)被不斷改寫並適應,從而worlding itself。盡管如此,本書似乎更應該被看作是關於中醫在上海和加州的一些具體問題的研究。首尾兩章分彆寫與世界接軌和差異的距離,對我來說太過龐大,中間四章分彆落腳到實踐中知識的重組、中醫“醫學奇跡”話語和自身邊緣化的關係、治療師如何藉助生物醫學以及中醫傳承的性彆關係,對鮮活個案的訪談與民族誌將討論帶嚮具體實踐中的復雜互動的同時,也讓我睏惑上海和加州兩地中醫發展的內在關聯是什麼。中醫在吸收並適應加州本土文化和生活的同時和原來的文化背景有何關聯/斷裂。
評分作者試圖解釋當代中醫知識權威與醫療實踐的構建不是一個自遙遠時空的連續統一體,其在跨區域傳播的過程中不斷結閤每個地方(本書以加州和上海為例)的地方性差異(空間、性彆傳統、傳播機製、生活方式)被不斷改寫並適應,從而worlding itself。盡管如此,本書似乎更應該被看作是關於中醫在上海和加州的一些具體問題的研究。首尾兩章分彆寫與世界接軌和差異的距離,對我來說太過龐大,中間四章分彆落腳到實踐中知識的重組、中醫“醫學奇跡”話語和自身邊緣化的關係、治療師如何藉助生物醫學以及中醫傳承的性彆關係,對鮮活個案的訪談與民族誌將討論帶嚮具體實踐中的復雜互動的同時,也讓我睏惑上海和加州兩地中醫發展的內在關聯是什麼。中醫在吸收並適應加州本土文化和生活的同時和原來的文化背景有何關聯/斷裂。
評分有關中醫的人類學和STS研究。作者考察瞭中國和加州的中醫發展,討論瞭中醫的“全球化”如何實現,和如何定義什麼是“正宗”中醫當中對“中國”,“中國文化”,“中醫”不同角度的看法,切入的角度非常有趣。
評分讀的是博士論文原稿 The Worlding of Traditional Chinese Medicine: A Translocal Study of Knowledge,Identity, Cultural Politics in China and the United States
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