Prescriptions for Virtuosity : The Postcolonial Struggle of Chinese Medicine / Eric I. Karchmer.
"Although Chinese medicine is assumed to be a timeless healing tradition, the encounter with modern biomedicine threatened its very existence and led to many radical changes. Prescriptions for Virtuosity tells the story of how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to the global dominance o...
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