Chinese medicine in East Africa : an intimacy with strangers / Elisabeth Hsu.

Introduction
Moving through the Practico-Sensory Realm of Space
Spatial Textures of the Clinical Encounter
Misunderstandings, and the Spaces They Create
Emplacement, Emplotment, 'Empotment'
Patients, Practitioners and Their Pots
The Patients
The Practitioners
The Pots: Orientations
Pots, 'Pots' and Pots
What Is in a 'Pot'? Industrially-Produced Chinese Formula Medicines
What Makes a Pot Efficacious? Social Distance, Exotic Techniques and
Potencies beyond Them
'The Chinese Antimalarial' as 'Pot' and Pot
Conclusion. Kaleidoscopic Refractions.