Peng, Yuzhu (Altman) (2023) Traditional Chinese medicine is fake : politicised medical commentaries in China in the Covid-19 pandemic. In: Sikka, Tina and Longstaff, Gareth and Walls, Steve, (eds.) Disrupted Knowledge : Scholarship in a Time of Change. Studies in Critical Social Sciences, 248 . Leiden: Brill, pp. 114-133. ISBN 9789004536401 (In Press)

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Abstract

During the unprecedented covid-19 pandemic, investing in medical science to combat the sars-CoV-2 virus has become an administrative priority in almost every national government in the world. Under these circumstances, we have witnessed more and more political interference in the public health sector. High- profile incidents of this kind include Donald Trump’s controversial sup-port for hydroxychloroquine treatment for covid-19 patients, which was heavily criticised by both scientists and the media (bbc, 2020a). In China, where the outbreak started, such political interference is most notably reflected in the Chinese government’s advocacy of traditional Chinese medicine (tcm) treatment for covid-19 patients (The Paper, 2020). This public health policy most recently prompted a wave of public debates on tcm in Chinese society. The influence of the current debate on tcm has gone far beyond the science community, which is evidenced by volumes of related commentaries posted on various social media platforms (Peng & Chen, 2021). The most recent wave of debates on tcm is indeed indicative of how public health- related topics are politicised in Chinese society during the covid-19 pandemic.

Item Type:	Book Item
Subjects:	R Medicine > R Medicine (General) R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine
Divisions:	Faculty of Social Sciences > Centre for Applied Linguistics
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH):	COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- , COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- -- Political aspects -- China, COVID-19 (Disease) -- Alternative treatment -- China, Medicine, Chinese , Medicine, Chinese -- Political aspects, Communication in medicine
Series Name:	Studies in Critical Social Sciences
Publisher:	Brill
Place of Publication:	Leiden
ISBN:	9789004536401
Book Title:	Disrupted Knowledge : Scholarship in a Time of Change
Editor:	Sikka, Tina and Longstaff, Gareth and Walls, Steve
Official Date:	30 March 2023
Dates:	Date Event 30 March 2023 Published
Volume:	248
Page Range:	pp. 114-133
DOI:	10.1163/9789004536418_008
Status:	Peer Reviewed
Publication Status:	In Press
Access rights to Published version:	Restricted or Subscription Access
Date of first compliant deposit:	6 December 2022
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