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

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

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Author / Creator:	Zhang, Yanhua.
Imprint:	Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007.
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages).
Language:	English
Series:	SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culture.
Subject:	Medical anthropology -- China. Medicine, Chinese. Ethnopsychology -- China. Emotions -- Social aspects -- China. Emotions -- Social aspects. Ethnopsychology. Medical anthropology. Medicine, Chinese. Ethnopsychology. Emotions. Medicine, Chinese Traditional. Ethnopsychology -- China. Emotions -- China. Medicine, Chinese Traditional -- China. China. China. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12314453

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ISBN:	9781429471367 1429471360 0791469999 0791470008 9780791469996 9780791470008 9780791480595 0791480593
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-186) and index. Print version record.
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 categorised 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."--Jacket.
Other form:	Print version: Zhang, Yanhua. Transforming emotions with Chinese medicine. Albany : State University of New York Press, ©2007 0791469999 9780791469996
Standard no.:	9780791469996

Table of 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.