This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implica

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the

Following on the previous volume, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, which was co-edited with Milton Lewis, this book explores historical and contemporary d

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This ti

This book discusses the disease causes and mechanisms, pattern discrimination, treatment principles, and Chinese medical treatmnet of more than 20 traditional C