Breathing spaces
Subtitle: qigong, psychiatry, and healing in China
By: Nancy N. Chen.
Contributors: Chen, Nancy N.
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
Subjects: Qi gong; Qi gong -- Political aspects; Qi gong -- Social aspects; Exercise therapy; Psychiatry
Other titles: Qigong, psychiatry, and healing in China
Description: Anthropologist Nancy Chen examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC, Taiwan and the United States and the pages of her book come alive with the narratives of the numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors and bureaucrats she interviewed.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.