Knowing Practice or Baldness

Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine

Author: Judith Farquhar

This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms of knowledge. Knowing Practice will be of value not only to anthropologists interested in medical practice but also to historians and sociologists interested in the social life of technical expertise and traditional teachings.

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Baldness: A Social History

Author: Kerry Segrav

Each year, men spend an enormous amount of time and money searching for a cure to male pattern baldness. Numerous psychological assessments indicate that the reasons behind their futile efforts are sound: attitudes toward bald men are overwhelmingly negative.

From the first torturous attempts at hair implants early in this century to the faddish, well-hyped drug treatments of today, the extremes to which men have gone in an effort to regrow hair or cover their bald scalps are examined in this work. The various causes for baldness advanced by credible members of the medical establishment over the years are detailed, as well as instances of outright quackery prompted by numerous individuals and companies. Wigs, weaving, transplants, flaps and scalp reduction are among the techniques explained.

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The author considers theories of the causes of male pattern baldness, cures of hair loss from the medical establishment, various kinds of quackery, and attitudes towards what he calls "rugs, plugs, and drugs." Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface	1
1	Bald Facts and Fictions	3
2	Hats, Ivory Domes, Razors, and Dangerous Barbers	14
3	Everything Under the Sun	32
4	Rubbing, Blistering, and Electrifying	51
5	Desperately Seeking Hair	66
6	Wigs and Weaving	91
7	Implants	99
8	Transplants, Flaps, and Scalp Reductions	109
9	Celebrities and Politicians	121
10	Bald Attitude	129
11	This Is Not Snake Oil	147
	Notes	171
	Bibliography	195
	Index	209