Keyword: capitalism
  • Cosmographic Experiments: Thinking, Doing, and Being with Classical Chinese Medicine

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    In questioning the status of materialist theory and the process of theorization in traditional Chinese medicine, and in postsocialist life more broadly speaking, classical Chinese medicine advocates imagine nondialectical materialisms as immanent ways of thinking, doing, and being in the world.

  • Toward Global Histories of Pharmaceuticals in East Asia

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    This brief essay considers the history of pharmaceuticals in East Asia. It begins with a discussion of the burgeoning popularity of cultural and social histories of modern medicine in East Asia, and it describes the benefits and potential pitfalls of examining medicines as commodities.