1st Edition

Psychiatry and Chinese History

By Howard Chiang Copyright 2015
294 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

This 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 and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.

List of Contributors, List of Figures, Introduction: Historicizing Chinese Psychiatry – Howard Chiang, Part I: Historical Precedents, Part II: Missionary Investments, Part III: Biomedical Modernity, Part IV: New Therapeutic Cultures, Afterword: Reframing Psychiatry in China – Nancy N. Chen, Notes, Index

Biography

Howard Chiang