The use and practice of traditional and complementary medicines among people from various cultural and ethnic backgrounds in B.C. are inseparable from the migration and colonial history in Canada. This project investigates the issue of medical pluralism in Canada’s—specifically British Columbia’s—response to the COVID-19 pandemic. With Chinese medicine as an example, it will question whether it is justifiable to neglect the diversity inherent in traditional and complementary medicines, and the associated pluralistic healing approaches, in the public health response to a pandemic. 

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