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Howard Chiang

Psychiatry and Chinese History

Sprachen: Englisch. 24,0 cm / 16,1 cm / 2,1 cm ( B/H/T )
Buch (Hardcover), 304 Seiten
EAN 9781848934382
Veröffentlicht Juli 2014
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Beschreibung

This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.

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Howard Chiang

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors, List of Figures, Introduction: Historicizing Chinese Psychiatry - Howard Chiang, Part I: Historical Precedents, Part II: Missionary Investments, Part III: Biomedical Modernity, Part IV: New Therapeutic Cultures, Afterword: Reframing Psychiatry in China - Nancy N. Chen, Notes, Index

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