For my parents
and my sister Ann

Studies in the Ethnographic Imagination

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Farquhar, Judith.

Knowing practice: the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine/
Judith Farquhar.

p. cm. -- (Studies in the ethnographic imagination)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-8133-8533-4 (hc). ISBN 0-8133-3016-5 (pbk).
1. Medicine, Chinese. I. Title. II. Series.
[DNIM: 1. Medicine, Chinese Traditional, 2. Diagnosis.
3. Therapeutics. WB 50 JC6 F16k 1994]
R601.F34 1994
615.5'3'095l-dc20
DNLM/DLC
for Library of Congress 93-25947
CIP

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