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Transforming emotions with Chinese medicine: an ethnographic account from contemporary China

By Zhang , Yanhua

Book information

Publisher
State University of New York Press
Year
2007
ISBN
9780791469996, 9780791470008, 0791469999, 0791470008, 9780791480595, 0791480593
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2234114 bytes)
Series
SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture
Pages
191\208
Time added
2020-11-29 04:09:49
Complementary Med...;Traditional Chinese Medicine

Description

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 categorized 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.

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