Book contents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Historicizing Chinese Psychiatry
- Part I Historical Precedents
- 1 Exorcising Dreams and Nightmares in Late Ming China
- 2 Emotional Therapy and Talking Cures in Late Imperial China
- 3 Medicaments and Persuasion: Medical Therapies for Madness in Nineteenth-Century China
- Part II Missionary Investments
- Part III Biomedical Modernity
- Part IV New Therapeutic Cultures
- Afterword: Reframing Psychiatry in China
- Notes
- Index
3 - Medicaments and Persuasion: Medical Therapies for Madness in Nineteenth-Century China
from Part I - Historical Precedents
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Dedication
- List of Contributors
- List of Figures
- Introduction: Historicizing Chinese Psychiatry
- Part I Historical Precedents
- 1 Exorcising Dreams and Nightmares in Late Ming China
- 2 Emotional Therapy and Talking Cures in Late Imperial China
- 3 Medicaments and Persuasion: Medical Therapies for Madness in Nineteenth-Century China
- Part II Missionary Investments
- Part III Biomedical Modernity
- Part IV New Therapeutic Cultures
- Afterword: Reframing Psychiatry in China
- Notes
- Index
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- Type
- Chapter
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- Psychiatry and Chinese History , pp. 55 - 70Publisher: Pickering & ChattoFirst published in: 2014