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

By:

Zhang, Yanhua

Series: SUNY series in Chinese philosophy and culturePublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, c2007.Description: xiv, 191 p. ; 23 cmISBN:

0791469999 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780791469996 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0791470008 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780791470008 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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DDC classification:

306.4/610951 22

LOC classification:

GN296.5.C6 Z53 2007

NLM classification:

2007 E-901
GN 270

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.

Review: "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.Summary: 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."--BOOK JACKET.

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

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

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