Eating Chinese Medicine

Farquhar, Judith

doi:10.1525/can.1994.9.4.02a00020

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“…Books on Chinese cooking often emphasize the medicinal value of foods and the importance of “nutritional therapies” dating from earliest times, and many of the vegetable and animal products decocted in Chinese medicines are used routinely in cooking. During the 1980s, talk at banquets frequently revolved around the healthful properties of foods being consumed, and nutritional and food preparation advice was commonly tendered in clinics along with herbal prescriptions [20]. …”

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Wild Animals Used as Food Medicine in Brazil

Alves

Oliveira²,

Rosa³

2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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The connection between eating and healing is common in traditional folk medical systems, and the multiple possibilities resulting from the combination of biodiversity and culture confer a wealth and complexity in terms of knowledge of the flora and fauna as to their potential as food medicine. The growing awareness of the links between traditional therapeutic-alimentary uses of wildlife and conservation has drawn attention to the gaps in knowledge on the social, economic, and biological contexts in which different forms of traditional wildlife uses take place, particularly with regard to zootherapeutic resources. In this study we interviewed 124 merchants and 203 traditional users of animal-derived remedies in Brazil, aiming at documenting the animal species used as foods and medicines in urban and rural areas of the country. At least 354 wild animal species are used in Brazilian traditional medicine, of which 157 are also used as food. The high degree of overlap between medicinal and alimentary uses of wild animals highlights the importance of understanding the socioeconomic, cultural, and ecological contexts in which those traditional uses take place for elucidating their potential impact on public health and biodiversity conservation.

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Wild Animals Used as Food Medicine in Brazil

Alves

Oliveira²,

Rosa³

2013

Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

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“…A body of literature points to the role played by food in curing and preventing a range of ailments-from anaemia to coughsin Hong Kong (Koo, 1987). There is considerable documentation of the inseparability of food and medicine in Chinese culture (see Farquhar, 1994). Food not only plays a major role in the treatment of illness, it is often seen as a cause.…”

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Social Representation of a Food Risk: The Hong Kong Avian Bird Flu Epidemic

Joffe

Lee

2004

J Health Psychol

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The paper explores the social representation of the 2001 Hong Kong avian bird flu epidemic from the perspective of local women. Fifty women were asked to describe their first thoughts about the flu, and these were subsequently explored. Thematic analysis of the semi-structured interviews revealed that the first thoughts were characterized by: (a) the origin of the epidemic, (b) anchors for it, (c) emotions about it, and (d) images of it. Aspersion concerning the lack of hygiene of Mainland Chinese chicken rearers and chicken sellers in Hong Kong dominated the interviews. Other environmental factors were also stressed, as was regulation leniency and a drive to profit. Comparisons between old traditions and newer practices formed a central feature. The findings are discussed in terms of their continuity with western risk findings as well as their specific cultural nuances.

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“…This article takes as its foundation the well‐established literature in medical anthropology that demonstrates how the hospital, as a microcosmic institution in which core societal values inhere, is a key site for the production of political subjectivities (Farquhar ; Livingston ; Nichter ; Scheper‐Hughes ). Medical anthropologists have demonstrated how doctor–patient interactions in particular, are “sites of political negotiation and contestation … effect[ing] changes that reverberate beyond the resolution of bodily afflictions to transform subjectivities and social relations” (Cooper , 461).…”

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From Reproductive Rights to Responsibilization: Fashioning Liberal Subjects in Mexico City's New Public Sector Abortion Program

Singer¹

2017

Med Anthropol Q

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Building on medical anthropology literature that analyzes doctor-patient interactions as a charged site for the production of political subjectivities, I demonstrate how a central feature of Mexico City's new public sector abortion program involves "responsibilization." In accordance with entrenched Ministry of Health objectives, providers transmit a suite of values about personal responsibility and self-regulation through the use of birth control, hinging abortion rights to responsible reproductive subjectivity. Based on 18 months of ethnographic research across program clinics, including 75 interviews with patients and providers, I show how interrupción legal del embarazo protocols fashion "responsibilized" liberal subjects. I argue that the recent granting of abortion rights in Mexico City-ostensibly a new moment for the construction of women's citizenship-instead reflects and extends long-standing state agendas of "reproductive governance." My analysis of reproductive rights as the newest framing of ongoing population policies in Mexico adds to a critical anthropology of human rights and of liberal projects of governance.

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Eating Chinese Medicine

Cited by 60 publications

References 13 publications

Wild Animals Used as Food Medicine in Brazil

Wild Animals Used as Food Medicine in Brazil

Social Representation of a Food Risk: The Hong Kong Avian Bird Flu Epidemic

From Reproductive Rights to Responsibilization: Fashioning Liberal Subjects in Mexico City's New Public Sector Abortion Program

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