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With depth and clarity, Prescriptions for Virtuosity examines how Chinese medicine in China reimagined itself in response to the West. As a participant-observer, Karchmer combines five-years of Chinese medicine education with ethnographic and archival methodologies to trace how Chinese medicine succeeded in finding a prominent and unmistakable, if somewhat precarious role, in Chinese health care. This book is a critical read for anthropologists and historians and indispensable for Chinese medicine practitioners in both the West and the Far East. Anyone interested in how 'old' knowledge survives into modernity and how the present recreates the past will benefit from reading it. ---Ted J. Kaptchuk, Harvard University,

With depth and clarity, Prescriptions for Virtuosity examines how Chinese medicine in China reimagined itself in response to the West. As a participant-observer, Karchmer combines five-years of Chinese medicine education with ethnographic and archival methodologies to trace how Chinese medicine succeeded in finding a prominent and unmistakable, if somewhat precarious role, in Chinese health care. This book is a critical read for anthropologists and historians and indispensable for Chinese medicine practitioners in both the West and the Far East. Anyone interested in how 'old' knowledge survives into modernity and how the present recreates the past will benefit from reading it.---Ted J. Kaptchuk, Harvard University

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Eric I. Karchmer, Ph.D., M.D. (China), L.Ac. is Visiting Assistant Professor at China Medical University in Taichung, Taiwan.

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