Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China's Mountain South

by Judith Farquhar

Book Overview

In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation's registered minorities to "salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate" folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge development while sympathetically introducing the myriad therapeutic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022676365X
• ISBN13: 9780226763651
• Release Date: April 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"