Psychiatry and Chinese History (Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine)

by HowardChiang (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2014

  $227.67

  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.