The persistence of Chinese medicine: Adjustment and diversity

G. L. Ooi

Social Science & Medicine, 1991, vol. 32, issue 3, 261-266

Abstract: Chinese medicine persists in many parts of East and Southeast Asia. This persistence has meant the re-organisation of traditional Chinese medical practice. Institutional developments and adjustments observed among the traditional Chinese medical practitioners, the chung-i, have created diversity. Such diversity among the chung-i is evident by comparing not only the practices which are based in shops and those which are clinic-based but also the newer and older practices.

Keywords: Chinese; medicine; persistence; shop; clinic; practice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1991
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