简介
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.
目录
Chapter 0
Introduction: Historicizing Chinese Psychiatry – Howard Chiang
Chapter 1
Exorcising Dreams and Nightmares in Late Ming China
Chapter 2
Emotional Therapy and Talking Cures in Late Imperial China
Chapter 3
Medicaments and Persuasion: Medical Therapies for Madness in Nineteenth-Century China
Chapter 4
Psychiatric Space and Design Antecedents: The John G. Kerr Refuge for the Insane
Chapter 5
An Iron Cage of Civilization? Missionary Psychiatry, the Chinese Family and a Colonial Dialect of Enlightenment – Zhiying Ma
Chapter 6
Tropical Neurasthenia or Oriental Nerves? White Breakdowns in China – Wen-Ji Wang
Chapter 7
Pathologizing Marriage: Neuropsychiatry and the Escape of Women in Early Twentieth-Century China – Hugh Shapiro
Chapter 8
Gone with the West Wind: The Emergence and Disappearance of Psychotherapeutic Culture in China, 1936–68
Chapter 9
A Charted Epidemic of Trauma: Case Notes at the Psychiatric Department of National Taiwan University Hospital between 1946 and 1953
Chapter 10
The Emergence of the Psycho-Boom in Contemporary Urban China