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