Culture, consumerism & commercialisation: a history of Chinese proprietary medicine in twentieth-century Singapore

• Main Author: Teo, Ziqing
• Other Authors: Koh Keng We
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: Nanyang Technological University 2023
• Subjects: Humanities::History
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/165366
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The idea of dichotomising medical systems into traditional and modern is highly problematic as it often presents itself in the forms of institutional and social stigmas. Singapore, like many other countries, discriminated against Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) in favour for mainstream, western m...