Breathing Spaces - Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

Informationen zum Autor Nancy N. Chen Klappentext The charismatic form of healing called qigong! based on meditative breathing exercises! has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function! as practitioners formed new informal networks! sometimes on an international scale! at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast! qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Breathing Spaces brings to life the narratives of numerous practitioners! healers! psychiatric patients! doctors! and bureaucrats! revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China. Zusammenfassung The charismatic form of healing called qigong! which at its core involves meditative breathing exercises! has achieved enormous popularity in China since the early 1980s. This text examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC! Taiwan and the USA. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface1. Introduction2. Fever3. Riding the Tiger4. Qigong Deviation or Psychosis5. Chinese Psychiatry and the Search for Order6. Mandate of Science7. Transnational Qigong8. Suffering and HealingGlossary

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• Authors: Pheng Cheah, Pheng Chen Cheah, Nancy Chen, Nancy (University of California At Santa Cru Chen, Nancy (University of California at Santa Cruz) Chen, Nancy N. Chen, Chen Nancy, Sayo N. Masuda
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.06.2003
• EAN: 9780231128049
• ISBN: 978-0-231-12804-9
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Guides > Health; China, Martial Arts, HEALTH & FITNESS / General, Fitness & diet, Fitness and diet, Oriental martial arts, SPORTS & RECREATION / Martial Arts / General, exercise; anthropology; Asian history