When psychiatry encounters local knowledge of madness: Ethnographic observations in a Chinese psychiatric hospital
As the number of psychiatric hospitals are on the rise in China, this article examines how the psychiatric discourse as articulated by hospital staff interacts with local cultural understandings of madness/mental illness, as well as how such interactions impact patients and families’ reception of ps...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Elsevier
2023-12-01
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| Series: | SSM - Mental Health |
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| Online Access: | http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666560323000816 |