Description
Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future.
Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the chapters each engage with the field of medicine through the visual arts. They cover themes such as the history of doctors and their concepts of disease and therapies, understanding the patient experience of illness and death, and establishing empathy and compassion in medical practice, as well as the HIV/AIDs epidemic during the 1980s and 90s and changing attitudes towards disability. Inherently interdisciplinary in nature, the contributors therefore provide different perspectives from the fields of history, psychiatry, film studies, anthropology, linguistics, public health and occupational therapy, as they relate to China and people who identify as Chinese. Their combined approaches are united by a passion for improving the cross-cultural understanding of the body and ultimately healthcare itself.
A key resource for educators in the Medical Humanities, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Film Studies as well as global health, medical anthropology and medical history.
Table of Contents
Introduction, Vivienne Lo, Chris Berry and Guo Liping
Part 1: Cross Cultural Histories of the Body and its Care
1. Dead or Alive: Martial Arts and The Forensic Gaze, Vivienne Lo
2. How to be a Good Maoist Doctor: Wuyingdeng xia song yinzhen 无影灯下颂银针 (An Ode to the Silver Needle Under a Shadowless Lamp, 1974), Leon Antonio Rocha
3. Self-Care, Yangsheng and Mutual Aid in Zhang Yang’s Shower (Xizao 洗澡 (1999), Michael J Clark
4. Sentiments like Water: Unsettling Pathologies of Homosexual and Sadomasochistic Desire, Derek Hird
Part 2: Film and the Public Sphere
5. The Fever with No Name: Genre-blending Responses to the HIV-tainted Blood Scandal in 1990’s China, Marta Hanson
6. Fortune Teller: The Visible and Invisible, Lili Lai
7. Longing for the Rain: Journeys into the Dislocated Female Body of Urban China, Vivienne Lo and Serenity Nashuyuan Wang
Part 3: Improving the Education and Training of Health Professionals
8. The Gigantic Black Citadel: Design of Death and Medical Humanities Pedagogy in China, Guo Liping
9. Blind Massage: Sense and Sensuality, Chris Berry
10. Cinemeducation and Disability: An Undergraduate Special Study Module for Medical Students in China, Daniel Vuillermin
Part 4: Transforming Self-health Care in the Digital Age
11. Raising Awareness about Anti-microbial Resistance: a Nationwide Video and Arts Competition for Chinese University Students using Social Media, Therese Hesketh, Zhou Xudong and Wang Xiaomin
12. Queer Comrades: Digital Video Documentary and LGBTQ Health Activism in China. Hongwei Bao
13. Recovering from Mental Illness and Suicidal Behaviour in a Culturally Diverse Context: The Use of Digital Storytelling in Cross-cultural Medical Humanities and Mental Health, Erminia Colucci and Susan McDonough
14. Food-related Yangsheng Short Videos among the Retired Population in Shanghai, Xinyuan Wang and Vivienne Lo
