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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.
Contents
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