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

Author
Zhang, Yanhua
Published
Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
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Contents
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.
Summary
"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.
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9781429471367 (electronic bk.)
1429471360 (electronic bk.)
0791469999 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
0791470008 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791469996 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780791470008 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780791480595
0791480593
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.
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