ISBN:
9781429471367
,
1429471360
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (xiv, 191 p.)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Zhang, Yanhua Transforming emotions with Chinese medicine
DDC:
306.4610951
Keywords:
Medical anthropology China
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Ethnopsychology China
;
Emotions Social aspects
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China
;
Medicine, Chinese
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Medical anthropology
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Emotions Social aspects
;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
;
China
;
Emotions
;
China
;
Ethnopsychology
;
China
;
China
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Emotions
;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Emotions
;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
;
Emotions ; Social aspects
;
Ethnopsychology
;
Medical anthropology
;
Medicine, Chinese
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
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China
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
China
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
"Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedical model. Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine offers an ethnographic account of emotion-related disorders as they are conceived, talked about, experienced, and treated in clinics of Chinese medicine In contemporary China. While Chinese medicine (zhongyi) has been predominantly categorised as herbal therapy that treats physical disorders, it is also well known that Chinese patients routinely go to zhongyi clinics for treatment of illness that might be diagnosed as psychological or emotional in the West. Through participant observation, interviews, case studies, and zhongyi publications, both classic and modern, the author explores the Chinese notion of "body-person," unravels cultural constructions of emotion, and examines the way Chinese medicine manipulates body-mind connections."--Jacket
Abstract:
Introduction -- Chinese medicine : continuity and modern transformations -- The Chinese world of shenti (body-person) -- Contextualizing qingzhi (emotions) -- Understanding Zhongyi clinical classification -- Manifestations of yu (stagnations) -- Clinical process of tiao (attuning) -- Conclusion.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-186) and index. - Description based on print version record
