Switching between traditional Chinese medicine and Viagra: Cosmopolitanism and medical pluralism today

Medical Anthropology: Cross Cultural Studies in Health and Illness

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 53-96

  Zhang, Everett Yuehong ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Cosmopolitanism; Hybridization; Medical pluralism; Sexuality; Switching; Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM); Viagra

Indexed keywords

HERBACEOUS AGENT; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITOR; PIPERAZINE DERIVATIVE; PURINE DERIVATIVE; SILDENAFIL; SULFONE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; IMPOTENCE; MALE; MEDICINAL PLANT; PHYTOTHERAPY; REVIEW;

ADULT; ANTHROPOLOGY, CULTURAL; CHINA; CULTURAL DIVERSITY; DRUGS, CHINESE HERBAL; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; IMPOTENCE; MALE; PHOSPHODIESTERASE INHIBITORS; PHYTOTHERAPY; PIPERAZINES; PLANTS, MEDICINAL; PURINES; SULFONES;

EID: 33847647133     PISSN: 01459740     EISSN: 15455882     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01459740601184448     Document Type: Review

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