Breathing Spaces Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

Name: Breathing Spaces Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
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ISBN: 9780231128049

ISBN-10: 0231128045

ISBN-13: 9780231128049

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nancy Chen, Pheng Cheah

List price: $120.00

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Description:

Anthropologist Nancy Chen examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC, Taiwan and the United States and the pages of her book come alive with the narratives of the numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors and bureaucrats she interviewed.

Book details

List price: $120.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/4/2003
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.91" long x 0.07" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Fever



Riding the Tiger



Qigong Deviation or Psychosis



Chinese Psychiatry and the Search for Order



Mandate of Science



Transnational Qigong



Suffering and Healing


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index