Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine

Yanhua Zhang

Description

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.
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

Sujets

• Complementary Medicine
• Alternative medicine
• Anthropology

Informations

• Publié par: State University of New York Press
• Date de parution: 01 février 2012
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780791480595
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 2 Mo

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Tràsformi Emotios wit Ciese Medicie

SUNY series in Cinese Pilosopy and Culture

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Tràsformi Emotios wit Ciese Medicie

An Ethnographic Account from Contemporary China

Ya n h ua Z h a n g

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Zang, Yanua. Transforming emotions wit Cinese medicine : an etnograpic account from contemporary Cina / Yanua Zang.  p. cm. -- (SUNY series in Cinese pilosopy and culture) Includes bibliograpical references and index. ISBN-: ---- (ardcover : alk. paper) ISBN-: ---- (pbk. : alk. paper) . Medical antropology--Cina. . Medicine, Cinese. . Traditional medicine--Cina. . Etnopsycology--Cina. . Emotions--Social aspects-- Cina. I. Title. II. Series. GN..CZ  .--dc 

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Appendix: Transcription Conventions Notes Bibliograpy Index

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Tables Illustrations Acknowledgments

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Summary of te functions of te five visceral systems Wuxingand te five-zangsystems Emotions and counteremotions Zeng(syndromes) andqingzidisorders Distribution ofqingzidisorders according tozeng(Patterns)

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