Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

Nancy N. Chen

Paper, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12805-6
$31.00 / £18.00

July, 2003
Cloth, 256 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12804-9
$83.00 / £49.00

Preface

1. Introduction

2. Fever

3. Riding the Tiger

4. Qigong Deviation or Psychosis

5. Chinese Psychiatry and the Search for Order

6. Mandate of Science

7. Transnational Qigong

8. Suffering and Healing

Glossary

About the Author

Nancy N. Chen is associate professor of anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz. A medical anthropologist, she also teaches courses on food, ethnographic film, urban anthropology, China, and Asian Americans.

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