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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Yanhua.

Series:

SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical anthropology--China.

Medical anthropology.

Medicine, Chinese.

Ethnopsychology--China.

Ethnopsychology.

Emotions--Social aspects--China.

Emotions.

Emotions--Social aspects.

China.

Physical Description:

xiv, 191 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, [2007]

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 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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index.

ISBN:

0791469999

9780791469996

0791470008

9780791470008

OCLC:

67383946