Chinese Medical Concepts in Urban China Change and Persistence.
Title:
Chinese Medical Concepts in Urban China Change and Persistence.
Author:
Boeke, Martin.
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9783653038644
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Publication Information:
Frankfurt : Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, 2014.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (214 pages)
Contents:
Cover; Table of content; I. Acknowledgements; II. List of Figures, Tables and Abbrevations; 1. Introduction; Raising the Subject; A Short History of Medicine in China; Medical Pluralism and the Contemporary Situation of Chinese Medicine in China; Excursion: Ethnology and Emotions; 2. Research Questions and Methodology; 3. Emotions and Health in Classical Chinese Texts; 4. Emotions and Health in Modern Medical Textbooks; 5. Somatization: 'Eastern Culture-Bound Syndrome' or 'Western Culture-Bound Perspective'?; 6. Empirical Results.
Beijing Inhabitants' Familiarity with Chinese Medical Concepts and the Evaluation of Chinese MedicineThe Pathological Potential of Emotions; Group-specific Perception of Illnesses Caused by Emotions; Utilization of Chinese Medicine; The Experts' Interviews; 7. Specific Answering Patterns; Age-specific Peculiarities: Changing Habitus and Different Modes of Power; Education-specific Peculiarities: Stress, Depression and the Chinese Education System; Gender-specific Peculiarities: 'Superior Births' and' Superior Mothers'; 8. Conclusion: Chinese Medicine Between Change and Persistence.
9. AppendicesAppendix 1: Questionnaire; Appendix 2: Statistical Data of the Survey; Appendix 3: Information on Medical Experts andMedical Institutions; 10. References.
Abstract:
Popular assertions proclaim a tradition of Chinese medicine spanning several thousand years. But is this really important for today's China? Is Chinese medicine relevant for the modern, cosmopolitan urban Chinese today? And, as the political system has changed dramatically during the last century, do these changes influence people's estimation of illnesses? Combining both a quintessential analysis of the relationship between emotions and health in different texts on Chinese medicine and empirical data consisting of quantitative and qualitative components, the author demonstrates that different.
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