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Psychiatry and Chinese History

Psychiatry and Chinese History - Studies for the Society for the Social History of Medicine

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

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Book information

ISBN: 9781848934382
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Imprint: Routledge
Pub date:
DEWEY: 616.8900951
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: xiii, 279
Weight: 616g
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 28mm

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