Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine
An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China
Seiten
2007
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-7000-8 (ISBN)
State University of New York Press (Verlag)
978-0-7914-7000-8 (ISBN)
Explores how Chinese medicine deals with emotional disorders.
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.
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.
Yanhua Zhang is Associate Professor of Chinese at Clemson University.
Tables
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction
2. Chinese Medicine: Continuity and Modern Transformations
3. The Chinese World of Shenti (Body-Person)
4. Contextualizing Qingzhi (Emotions)
5. Understanding zhongyi Clinical Classification
6. Manifestations of yu (Stagnations)
7. Clinical Process of tiao (Attuning)
8. Conclusion
Appendix: Transcription Conventions
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.3.2007 |
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Reihe/Serie | SUNY series in Chinese Philosophy and Culture |
Zusatzinfo | Total Illustrations: 0 |
Verlagsort | Albany, NY |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 290 g |
Themenwelt | Medizin / Pharmazie ► Naturheilkunde |
ISBN-10 | 0-7914-7000-8 / 0791470008 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-7914-7000-8 / 9780791470008 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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