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.
| ISBN: | 9781848934382 |
| Publication date: | 1st July 2014 |
| Author: | Howard Chiang |
| Publisher: | Pickering & Chatto (Publishers) Ltd an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 288 pages |
| Series: | Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine |
| Genres: |
Psychiatry History of medicine |