Journal article
'The medicine from China has rapid effects'
- Alternative title:
- Chinese medicine patients in Tanzania
- Abstract:
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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) involves both biomedical and traditional medical training, which makes well-trained TCM doctors inexpensive health care providers for primary health care. The Tanzanian Ministry of Health and Ministry of Commerce recognised this potential, and in the mid-1990s issued short-term licences for private TCM enterprises. In Dar es Salaam, some of these practices experiences a period of considerable growth, but by the year 2000 a degree of ambivalence if not resent...
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- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Journal:
- Anthropology and medicine More from this journal
- Volume:
- 9
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 291-313
- Publication date:
- 2002-12-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-2910
- ISSN:
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1364-8470
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- Language:
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English
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- UUID:
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- Local pid:
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ora:2362
- Deposit date:
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2008-09-29
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- Copyright holder:
- Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Copyright date:
- 2002
- Notes:
- N.B. The full-text of this article is not available in ORA. Citation: Hsu, E. (2002). '"The medicine from China has rapid effects": Chinese medicine patients in Tanzania', Anthropology & Medicine, 9 (3), 291-313. [Available at http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/carfax/13648470.html].
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