Psychiatry and Chinese History

By Howard Chiang

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032923490
• ISBN13: 9781032923499
• Release Date: October 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 294 Pages