Judith Farquhar, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Xin Liu, Anthropology, UC Berkeley, discussant
| DATE: | Thursday, November 19, 2009 |
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| TIME: | 4:00 PM to 6:00 PM |
| PLACE: | IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor |
| FORMAT: | Colloquium |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Chinese Studies |
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED, AND WILL BE RESCHEDULED IN SPRING.
The classical tradition of medicine in China has been deeply altered by its engagements with Western science and nation-state development over the last 150 years. This presentation characterizes contemporary Chinese medicine as a weave of local historical constraints, global economic and epistemological pressures, and clinical and pedagogical pragmatics. When considered in relation to the global movement for the recognition and re-deployment of indigenous knowledges, Chinese medicine's emergence in the late 20th century as an influential -- yet always challenged -- "non-western science" is instructive. Several case studies of Chinese medical theory and practice under global challenge, reflecting a constitutive politics of scientific knowledge, will be explored.
