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Article: Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis.(Reviews)(Book Review)
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- China Review International
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- September 22, 2003
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Volker Scheid. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis. Science and Cultural Theory series, Barbara Herrnstein Smith and E. Roy Weintraub, editors. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2002. xx, 407 pp. Hardcover, ISBN 0-8223-2857-7. Paperback, ISBN 0-8223-2972-0.
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis is derived from Volker Scheid's doctoral dissertation in anthropology ("Subjectivity, Agency, Synthesis: The Plurality of Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China") at Cambridge University. Scheid studied Chinese medicine in China, and, based on his experience in Beijing, this book is an account of Chinese ...