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| Varying Form of Title: | Qigong, psychiatry, and healing in China
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| ISBN: | 0231502214
9780231502214
9780231128056
0231128053
9780231128049
0231128045
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| Digital file characteristics: | data file
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-232) and index.
English.
Description based on online resource, title from digital title page (viewed on December 18, 2020).
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| Summary: | The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to ""medicalize"" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast, qigong continues.
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| Other form: | Print version: Breathing spaces. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2003 0231128045 0231128053
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