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Anthropologist Nancy Chen examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC, Taiwan and the United States and the pages of her book come alive with the narratives of the numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors and bureaucrats she interviewed.
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2 editions- Other · English · 2003Columbia University Press · 238 pages · 9780231128049
- Other · English · 2003Columbia University Press · 256 pages · 9780231502214
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