"Volker Scheid reveals the dynamic context of Chinese medicine and its continuous process of encounter, interpretation, negotiation, and synthesis. This study's depth of detail and breathtaking interdisciplinary scope provide a multidimensional understanding of Chinese medicine and the forces that nourish, constrain, and transform it. Any serious scholar or practitioner will want to read and reread this groundbreaking volume."--Ted J. Kaptchuk, author of "The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine"

List of Figures and Tables
Acknowledgments
Timeline on Chinese History
Geographical Map of China
Introduction
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Part I: Chinese Medicine and the Problem of Plurality
1. Orientations
2. Plurality and Synthesis: Toward a Multisited Ethnography of Chinese Medicine
Part II: Contemporary Chinese Medicine: Six Perspectives
3. Hegemonic Pluralism: Chinese Medicine in a Socialist State
4. Dilemmas and Tactical Agency: Patients and the Transformation of Chinese Medicine
5. Shaping Chinese Medicine: Integration, Innovation, Synthesis
6. Students, Disciples, and the Art of Social Networking: Becoming a Physician of Chinese Medicine
7. Bianzheng lunzhi: The Emergent Pivot of Contemporary Chinese Medicine
8. Creating Knowledge: The Origins of Plurality
Part III: Anthropological Interventions
9. The Future of Chinese Medicine
Appendix. Four Attempts at Systematizing Pattern Differentiation and Treatment Determination
Notes
Bibliography of Premodern Chinese Medical Texts
Bibliography of Modern Chinese and Western Sources
Index

Volker Scheid is Wellcome Trust Research Fellow in the Department of History, School of Oriental and African Studies, at the University of London.