Knowing Practice
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The Clinical Encounter Of Chinese Medicine (Studies in Ethnographic Imagination))
Judith Farquhar
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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.
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Introduction: We Take Practice to Be Our Guide
Chinese Medicine as Institutional Object and Historical Moment
Preliminary Orientations: Sources and Manifestations, Unity and Multiplicity
The Clinical Encounter Observed
Description and Analysis in Kanbing
The Syndrome-Therapy Pivot
Remanifesting the Syndrome and Qualifying the Therapy: Formulary and Materia Medica
Classification, Specificity, History, and Action: An Overview of the Clinical Encounter
Conclusion