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Normal and abnormal: behavior in Chinese culture
- Editors:
- KLEINMAN A., LIN T.Y., (eds.)
- Publisher:
- D. Reidel
- Publication year:
- 1980
- Pagination:
- 436p.
- Place of publication:
- Dordrecht
Psychiatry as a well-defined branch of medicine developed in the Western medical tradition in the early nineteenth century: the delineation of a medical field of knowledge dealing with the vicissitudes of the soul was probably stimulated by the ubiquitous dualistic body-soul conceptions so common in Western ideologies. The difficulties in studying Chinese souls, the Chinese having ceased to separate the soul from the rest of the body two millennia and a half ago, have long been acknowledged by students in the field. The book reviewed is the first anthology of modern and original research contributions on Chinese behaviour covering Chinese history of ideas, anthropology, sociology, family studies, psychopathology, and psychiatric epidemiology. The scope is broad but the book is held firmly together by the two editors, who have divided the twenty chapters into four sections, introducing each section with an editorial. The sections are: I. Historical and cultural background of beliefs and norms governing behaviour; II. Child development and childhood psychopathology; III. Family studies; and IV. Psychiatric studies: IV Epidemiological and clinical.