Capturing Quicksilver: The Position, Power, and Plasticity of Chinese Medicine in Singapore Hardcover 1

Arielle A.Smith

Since the turn of the century Singapore has sustained a reputation for both austere governance and cuttingedge biomedical facilities and research. Seeking to emphasize Singapore's capacity for modern medicine and strengthen their burgeoning biopharmaceutical industry this image has explicitly excluded Chinese medicine despite its tremendous popularity amongst Singaporeans from all walks of life and particularly amongst Singapore's ethnic Chinese majority. This book examines the use and practice of Chinese medicine in Singapore especially in everyday life and contributes to anthropological debates regarding the postcolonial intersection of knowledge identity and governmentality and to transnational studies of Chinese medicine as a permeable plural and fluid practice.

9781785337949

English

Berghahn Books

324

Arielle A. Smith completed her doctorate and postgraduate teaching in medical anthropology at the University of Oxford (2004-2010). She subsequently taught at the University of Montana (2011-2012) and as traveling faculty for International Honors Program/SIT (2012-2014). Most recently, she conducted postdoctoral research at Cermes3 (a joint unit of CNRS, EHESS, and Inserm) in Paris (2015), and preliminary research on anthropological reflexivity and tribal health/ healing in the USA (2016 to date).

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