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Psychiatry and Chinese history

By Howard , Chiang

Book information

Publisher
Routledge;Pickering & Chatto
Year
2014
ISBN
1848934386, 9781848934382, 9781306875363, 1306875366, 9781781440629, 178144062X
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (2484386 bytes)
Series
Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine
Pages
288\0
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Psychiatry -- China -- History. Mental illness --

Description

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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