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Psychiatry and Chinese History

Howard Chiang · 2014

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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.

Book details

Year
2014
Language
English
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Group
Editions
8
Pages
288
ISBN
9781781444306

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