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Breathing Spaces
Nancy N. Chen
其他書名
Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
出版Columbia University Press, 2003
主題Health & Fitness / Exercise / GeneralHistory / Asia / GeneralMedical / Allied Health Services / Physical TherapyMedical / Psychiatry / GeneralBody, Mind & Spirit / Healing / Energy (Qigong, Reiki, Polarity)Social Science / Anthropology / GeneralSocial Science / Archaeology
ISBN02311280459780231128049
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=BuxB8_oa_XMC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋The charismatic form of healing called qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast, qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Breathing Spaces brings to life the narratives of numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats, revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China.