Elizabeth Hsu
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 84914 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Elizabeth Hsu |
| PRENOMES | Elizabeth |
| SOBRENOME | Hsu |
| ASSINATURA | HSU E |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Oxford |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7734-4712 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 41 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 167 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 41 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1995 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
An Introduction to the Medical Anthropology of Care and Self-Care
This special section on self-care introduces a research perspective sensitive to aspects of caring for self and other that are core to sociogenesis. We start with critical post-humanist research that highlights how bondaries between self and other get blurred in the context of caring. This is also demonstrated by ethno- and evolutionary biological research that leaves unmentioned the selfish gene and, instead, foregrounds the socially relevant in…
Chapter 9 ‘Holism’ and the Medicalization of Emotion The Case of Anger in Chinese Medicine
The biological in the cultural
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin -…
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the 'placebo effect', the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin -…
Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine to strengthen conservation outcomes
Numerous treatments in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) involve the use of wildlife products, including some that utilize ingredients derived from endangered flora and fauna. Demand for such endangered wildlife products in TCM can threaten the survival of species and pose serious challenges for conservation. Chinese medical practice is embedded in the cultural fabric of many societies in East and Southeast Asia, and remains an integral part of …
SMS reminders to improve outpatient attendance for public dental services
Patients who miss scheduled appointments reduce clinical productivity and delay access to care for other patients. Reminders have improved attendance for healthcare appointments previously, but it is not known if short message service (SMS) implementation reduces incidence of patients unable to attend (UTA) or who fail to attend (FTA) appointments in the public dental service. This paper studied the effectiveness of SMS reminders in increasing ap…
The Healing Green, Cultural Synaesthesia and Triangular Comparativism
This article asks what kind of 'fatigue' (lao) the Chinese "Five Twig Powder" with qing (green) twig ingredients treated. If one considers the pronunciation of the colour term qing a phono-aesthetic aspect of the treatment, the Chinese 'sound of greenness' can be compared to the Anangu 'smell of greenness' that medical practices effected after the first rains in Australia's deserts (Young, Diana 2005. The Smell of Greenness: Cultural Synaesthesia…
Tian’anmen in Yunnan
Traditional Chinese Medicine
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a term coined in the People's Republic of China of the 1950s in an effort to approximate the Chinese term zhongyi . It refers to a form of medical learning where reasoning in terms of systemic correspondences prevails, including the so‐called five agents or five phases ( wuxing ), and where philosophical concepts such as yinyang and qi play a central role. This entry discusses first the history of TCM and the…
Condensing Life Substances within the House
The Shuhi of Muli County, Sichuan Province, are one of multiple ethnic groups inhabiting the river gorges of the Qinghai-Gansu-Sichuan corridor between the Tibetan plateau and the Chinese lowlands. The Shuhi have grown paddy rice since times immemorial at an unusually high altitude (ca. 2,300 m above sea level). This article aims to explain this conundrum not merely through the ecology (as is common among Tibetan area specialists), but by researc…
The Shuhi House between Reformist China and Revivalist Tibet
The Shuhi of Muli County, Sichuan province, inhabit the Tibetan-Chinese borderlands. In this paper, we focus on Shuhi kinship practices that accord the house the importance it appears to have for the Shuhi themselves. We demonstrate that the Shuhi engage in kinship practices that are ‘hearth-oriented’ (Hsu 1998b: 67–99) in a dynamic process affected by the current political economic changes in reformist China and religious revivalism in Tibet. Th…
Durkheim's Effervescence and Its Maussian Afterlife in Medical Anthropology
What, if not Durkheim’s ‘collective representations’ acquired during exalted states of effervescence, gives rise to society, culture and science? Marcel Mauss provides another answer by pointing to the different rhythms of social relationships and the human effort to synchronise them. The seasonal cycle of the Eskimo [Inuit], Mauss argues, is in accord with their game; hence people disperse in summer to pursue economic activities in small bands, …
From social lives to playing fields
With the tenth anniversary of the landmark publicationSocial Lives of Medicines (Whyte, van der Geest, and Hardon 2003), new avenues arise for exploring the ‘thinginess of things’ (Latour 2000). This paper, based on fieldwork carried out between 2001 and 2008, discusses how ‘the Chinese antimalarial’ as an over-the- counter medicine in petty enterprise clinics of East Africa became a biotechnological bulk item for Chinese import-export traders in…
Afterword
Anthropological and historical studies on Sowa Rigpa (“the science of healing”) have multiplied in the last ten years. Unlike other revived Asian medical traditions whose names reflect the nationalistic fervor of the early and mid-twentieth century, the revival of the Tibetan medical currents of learning commenced more recently, at a time when its study can benefit from the expertise of globally mobile scholar-practitioners. This globalizing of s…
Medical anthropology in Europe – quo vadis
Medical anthropology in Europe
Maladie et santé selon les sociétés et les cultures
The Mangle in Practice
Entries
Chinese Propriety Medicines
This article discusses various modes of "modernizing" traditional Chinese medical drugs (zhongyao [image: see text]) and transforming them into so-called Chinese propriety medicines (zhongchengyao [image: see text]) that are flooding the current neoliberal wellness markets. This article argues that the chemical procedures used in the manufacture of Chinese propriety medicines are highly culture-specific and deserve being considered as instantiati…
Introductory Note
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGunnar StollbergGUNNAR STOLLBERG is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research interests are situated in the fields of medical sociology and medical anthropology.Elisabeth HsuELISABETH HSU is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College. Her research focuses on conceptual and linguistic, sensorial, and emotiona…
Medical Pluralism
Pulse Diagnosis in Early Chinese Medicine
This is a study of the earliest extensive account of Chinese pulse diagnosis, or more accurately, the examination of mai. Dr Hsu focuses on a biography of Chunyu Yi, a doctor of the early Han, and presents the first complete translation into English of the Memoir in the Historical Records by Sima Qian (d. ca 86 BCE). This Memoir contains biographies of the physician, medical case histories and interviews, and constitutes a document of enormous im…
Quest for Harmony
Quest for Harmony: The Moso Traditions of Sexual Union and Family Life, by Chuan-kang Shih. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2010. xvi + 329 pp. US$65.00 (hardcover).This is a remarkable of a remarkable people. The Yongning Moso, who inhabit the flat and fertile shores of Lake Lugu at 2600 meters above sea level on the Yunnan-Sichuan border, have hit the headlines due to anthropological, journalistic and touristic sensationalism. As their soc…
Innovation in Chinese Medicine
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 552-555 Innovation in Chinese Medicine Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 November 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00170_6.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack cit…
Zanzibar and its Chinese communities
Zanzibar hosts three different groups of Chinese: the so‐called huaqiao community with beginnings that can be traced to the 1930s; the government‐sent teams of experts who since the revolution of 1964 have consolidated the links to the People's Republic of China (PRC); and a new wave of business people since the late 1990s, individual migrants who engage in various trades and generally are very mobile. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Zanzibar i…
The Senses and the Social
Chinese Propriety Medicines
This article discusses various modes of "modernizing" traditional Chinese medical drugs (zhongyao [image: see text]) and transforming them into so-called Chinese propriety medicines (zhongchengyao [image: see text]) that are flooding the current neoliberal wellness markets. This article argues that the chemical procedures used in the manufacture of Chinese propriety medicines are highly culture-specific and deserve being considered as instantiati…
The medicine from China has rapid effects
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) involves both biomedical and traditional medical training, which makes well-trained TCM doctors inexpensive health care providers for primary health care. The Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Commerce recognised this potential, and in the mid-1990s issued short-term licences for private TCM enterprises. In Dar es Salaam, some of these practices experienced a period of considerable growth, but by the …
Spirit (shen), Styles of Knowing, and Authority in Contemporary Chinese Medicine
The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine
Two terms for wind prevail in Chinese medical texts and practice:qiandfeng. Shigehisa Kuriyama noted thatqiusually referred to regular andfengto unruly winds. This is not contested in this paper, but it considers these connotations of wind a characteristic ofqiandfengin late imperial China in particular, and calls for an account that is more sensitive to historical change. Based on a study of twenty-five medical case histories in the 105th chapte…
Towards a science of touch, part I
This paper is about a pre-modern 'science of touch' - Chinese pulse diagnostics - which was the aspect of Chinese medicine most admired by physicians in early modern Europe. The paper first provides some historical information on Chinese pulse diagnostics in Europe and then details how it was presented to an 18th-century readership. At last, it points out that Chinese physicians had developed an elaborate system for distinguishing between various…
Tactility and the Body in Early Chinese Medicine
Argument If visual inspection of corpses was central to the development of anatomy in modern Europe, one may ask which of the senses was important for the emergence of the predominant currents of scholarly medical knowledge and practice in third- and second-century B.C.E. China? This article argues that it was tactile perception prompted by a tactile exploration of living bodies. The evidence, derived from a close reading of the Mawangdui medical…
Innovations in acumoxa
Towards a science of touch, Part II
This paper concerns a pre-modern 'science of touch' - Chinese pulse diagnostics - and it discusses four different means by which Chinese physicians represented and described the tactile experience of sensing different pulses: (a) by use of similes, (b) with descriptive verbs and adjectives, (c) by comparing one pulse to the other and contrasting the two from each other, and (d) by a visual representation of the tactile experience. The material fo…
Durkheim's Effervescence and Its Maussian Afterlife in Medical Anthropology
What, if not Durkheim’s ‘collective representations’ acquired during exalted states of effervescence, gives rise to society, culture and science? Marcel Mauss provides another answer by pointing to the different rhythms of social relationships and the human effort to synchronise them. The seasonal cycle of the Eskimo [Inuit], Mauss argues, is in accord with their game; hence people disperse in summer to pursue economic activities in small bands, …
From social lives to playing fields
With the tenth anniversary of the landmark publicationSocial Lives of Medicines (Whyte, van der Geest, and Hardon 2003), new avenues arise for exploring the ‘thinginess of things’ (Latour 2000). This paper, based on fieldwork carried out between 2001 and 2008, discusses how ‘the Chinese antimalarial’ as an over-the- counter medicine in petty enterprise clinics of East Africa became a biotechnological bulk item for Chinese import-export traders in…
Medical anthropology in Europe – quo vadis
Medical anthropology in Europe
The Mangle in Practice
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin -…
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the 'placebo effect', the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin -…
Introductory Note
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGunnar StollbergGUNNAR STOLLBERG is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research interests are situated in the fields of medical sociology and medical anthropology.Elisabeth HsuELISABETH HSU is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College. Her research focuses on conceptual and linguistic, sensorial, and emotiona…
Naxi and Moso Ethnography
Knowing Practice
The Taoist Body
Innovations in acumoxa
Knowing Practice
The Transmission of Chinese Medicine
This is one of the first studies of traditional medical education in an Asian country. Conducting extensive fieldwork in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China, Elisabeth Hsu became the disciple of, a Qigong master a scholarly private practitioner, who almost wordlessly conveys esoteric knowledge and techniques; attended seminars given by a senior Chinese doctor, an acupuncturist and masseur, who plunges his fol…
Naxi and Moso Ethnography
Towards a science of touch, part I
This paper is about a pre-modern 'science of touch' - Chinese pulse diagnostics - which was the aspect of Chinese medicine most admired by physicians in early modern Europe. The paper first provides some historical information on Chinese pulse diagnostics in Europe and then details how it was presented to an 18th-century readership. At last, it points out that Chinese physicians had developed an elaborate system for distinguishing between various…
Towards a science of touch, Part II
This paper concerns a pre-modern 'science of touch' - Chinese pulse diagnostics - and it discusses four different means by which Chinese physicians represented and described the tactile experience of sensing different pulses: (a) by use of similes, (b) with descriptive verbs and adjectives, (c) by comparing one pulse to the other and contrasting the two from each other, and (d) by a visual representation of the tactile experience. The material fo…
Spirit (shen), Styles of Knowing, and Authority in Contemporary Chinese Medicine
The medicine from China has rapid effects
Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) involves both biomedical and traditional medical training, which makes well-trained TCM doctors inexpensive health care providers for primary health care. The Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Commerce recognised this potential, and in the mid-1990s issued short-term licences for private TCM enterprises. In Dar es Salaam, some of these practices experienced a period of considerable growth, but by the …
Innovation in Chinese Medicine
Journal of Chinese PhilosophyVolume 31, Issue 4 p. 552-555 Innovation in Chinese Medicine Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author Lisa Raphals, University of California, RiversideSearch for more papers by this author First published: 15 November 2004 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00170_6.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack cit…
Tactility and the Body in Early Chinese Medicine
Argument If visual inspection of corpses was central to the development of anatomy in modern Europe, one may ask which of the senses was important for the emergence of the predominant currents of scholarly medical knowledge and practice in third- and second-century B.C.E. China? This article argues that it was tactile perception prompted by a tactile exploration of living bodies. The evidence, derived from a close reading of the Mawangdui medical…
Zanzibar and its Chinese communities
Zanzibar hosts three different groups of Chinese: the so‐called huaqiao community with beginnings that can be traced to the 1930s; the government‐sent teams of experts who since the revolution of 1964 have consolidated the links to the People's Republic of China (PRC); and a new wave of business people since the late 1990s, individual migrants who engage in various trades and generally are very mobile. Through ethnographic fieldwork in Zanzibar i…
The experience of wind in early and medieval Chinese medicine
Two terms for wind prevail in Chinese medical texts and practice:qiandfeng. Shigehisa Kuriyama noted thatqiusually referred to regular andfengto unruly winds. This is not contested in this paper, but it considers these connotations of wind a characteristic ofqiandfengin late imperial China in particular, and calls for an account that is more sensitive to historical change. Based on a study of twenty-five medical case histories in the 105th chapte…
Medical Pluralism
The History of Chinese Medicine in the People's Republic of China and Its Globalization
This introductory article provides an overview over the history of Chinese medicine, as it evolved in the People's Republic of China over the last 60 years. In particular, it highlights how Traditional Chinese Medicine (zhongyi), as invented in the 1950s during a period of nationalism marked by idealism and pride in China'sancient philosophy and cultural heritage, has evolved into a medicine that thrives on the contemporary global health market i…
The History of Chinese Medicine in the People’s Republic of China and its Globalization
This introductory article provides an overview over the history of Chinese medicine, as it evolved in the People’s Republic of China over the last 60 years. In particular, it highlights how Traditional Chinese Medicine (zhongyi), as invented in the 1950s during a period of nationalism marked by idealism and pride in China’s ancient philosophy and cultural heritage, has evolved into a medicine that thrives on the contemporary global health market …
The Senses and the Social
Entries
Chinese Propriety Medicines
This article discusses various modes of "modernizing" traditional Chinese medical drugs (zhongyao [image: see text]) and transforming them into so-called Chinese propriety medicines (zhongchengyao [image: see text]) that are flooding the current neoliberal wellness markets. This article argues that the chemical procedures used in the manufacture of Chinese propriety medicines are highly culture-specific and deserve being considered as instantiati…
Introductory Note
Additional informationNotes on contributorsGunnar StollbergGUNNAR STOLLBERG is a professor at the Faculty of Sociology at Bielefeld University, Germany. His research interests are situated in the fields of medical sociology and medical anthropology.Elisabeth HsuELISABETH HSU is Reader in Social Anthropology at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Green Templeton College. Her research focuses on conceptual and linguistic, sensorial, and emotiona…
The Mangle in Practice
Maladie et santé selon les sociétés et les cultures
Medical anthropology in Europe – quo vadis
Medical anthropology in Europe
Afterword
Anthropological and historical studies on Sowa Rigpa (“the science of healing”) have multiplied in the last ten years. Unlike other revived Asian medical traditions whose names reflect the nationalistic fervor of the early and mid-twentieth century, the revival of the Tibetan medical currents of learning commenced more recently, at a time when its study can benefit from the expertise of globally mobile scholar-practitioners. This globalizing of s…
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