Cargando…
Discourses of disease : writing illness, the mind and the body in modern China /
The meanings of disease have undergone such drastic changes with the introduction of modern Western medicine into China during the last two hundred years that new discourses have been invented to theorize illness, redefine health, and reconstruct classes and genders. As a consequence, medical litera...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
|---|---|
| Otros Autores: | |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
[2016]
|
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro
- Discourses of Disease: Writing Illness, the Mind and the Body in Modern China
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Disease and Discourse
- Part 1: Hygiene and Psychosis: From Routine to Poetry
- 1: James Henderson's Shanghai Hygiene and the British Constitution in Early Modern China
- 2: Curing Unhappiness in Revolutionary China: Optimism under Socialism and Capitalism
- 3: Metaphors unto Themselves: Mental Illness Poetics and Narratives in Contemporary Chinese Poetry
- Part 2: Drugs and Cancers: From Nation to Fiction
- 4: Unmaking of Nationalism: Drug Addiction and Its Literary Imagination in Bi Shumin's Novel
- 5: Narrative as Therapy: Stories of Breast Cancer by Bi Shumin and Xi Xi
- 6: Narrating Cancer, Disabilities, and aids: Yan Lianke's Trilogy of Disease
- Part 3: AIDS and Virus: From Film to Forum
- 7: Reluctant Transcendence: aids and the Catastrophic Condition in Gu Changwei's Film Love for Life
- 8: Alone Together: Contagion, Stigmatization and Utopia as Therapy in Zhao Liang's aids Documentary Together
- 9: The Unknown Virus: The Social Logic of Bio-conspiracy Theories in Contemporary China
- Index.