introduction

[Guest guest]

Hi all!

 

I just joined and was asked to introduce myself. My name is Sonya

Pritzker and I am a practitioner of Chinese medicine (acupuncture,

herbs) working in Santa Monica. I am a graduate of Meiji College of

Oriental Medicine in Berkeley, CA, and have also studied in Beijing

for 2 years (with various doctors).

 

Currently, I am also working on my PhD in medical and linguistic

anthropology at UCLA. My research consists of looking at ideologies

of translation and language socialization in U.S. Chinese medical

education. I am therefore filming classes at a school of CM in Los

Angeles, and conducting ongoing interviews with a cohort of first year

students as they go through the program. I am also looking at the

broader translation and terminology debates in the field (visiting

publishers, interviewing translators, etc.), and relating that back to

the students' experience in school.

 

So I love talking about language in Chinese (and other forms of Asian)

medicine, the politics of globalization, the socialization of healing

beliefs and practices, the history of Chinese medicine, etc. etc. I

know many members share these interests, and I look forward to being

in touch!

 

Thanks!!

Sonya