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.

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.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (207 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

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:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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

ISBN:

9780791480595

0791480593

9781429471367

1429471360

OCLC:

144610384