Book ID: CBB001422492

Psychiatry and Chinese History (2014)

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Chiang, Howard Hsueh-Hao (Author)


Pickering & Chatto


Publication Date: 2014
Physical Details: 288 pp.; index
Language: English

This landmark 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. From emotional therapy and missionary interventions in the late imperial era to the establishment of neuropsychiatry and the psycho-boom in the twentieth century, this book explores the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.

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Review Lijing Jiang (2016) Review of "Psychiatry and Chinese History". Social History of Medicine (pp. 408-409). unapi

Review Jingyuan Zhang (2016) Review of "Psychiatry and Chinese History". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 160-161). unapi

Review Author missing; (2015) Review of "Psychiatry and Chinese History". History of Psychiatry (pp. 236-237). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Ernst, Waltraud
Mary de Young
Ji-Hye Shin
Mark Neuendorf
Mason, Daniel
Hsin, Honor
Concepts
Psychiatry
Mental disorders and diseases
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Psychiatric hospitals
Diagnosis
Medical psychology
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
20th century, early
Places
Europe
United States
China
Great Britain
England
Scotland
Institutions
Toronto Hospital for the Insane
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