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oapen-20.500.12657-393552023-07-06T12:51:07Z Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities Lo, Vivienne Berry, Chris Liping, Guo Chinese medical humanities HIV/AIDS epidemic film studies bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues bic Book Industry Communication::M Medicine::MB Medicine: general issues::MBX History of medicine bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AP Film, TV & radio bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AN Theatre studies::ANH Theatre: technical & background skills bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JF Society & culture: general::JFS Social groups::JFSL Ethnic studies Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future. Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the chapters each engage with the field of medicine through the visual arts. They cover themes such as the history of doctors and their concepts of disease and therapies, understanding the patient experience of illness and death, and establishing empathy and compassion in medical practice, as well as the HIV/AIDs epidemic during the 1980s and 90s and changing attitudes towards disability. Inherently interdisciplinary in nature, the contributors therefore provide different perspectives from the fields of history, psychiatry, film studies, anthropology, linguistics, public health and occupational therapy, as they relate to China and people who identify as Chinese. Their combined approaches are united by a passion for improving the cross-cultural understanding of the body and ultimately healthcare itself. 2020-05-25T09:28:43Z 2020-05-25T09:28:43Z 2019 book 9780429017407 9781138580299 9780429507465 9781032085241 http://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/39355 eng application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781138580299_text.pdf Taylor & Francis Routledge 10.4324/9780429507465 10.4324/9780429507465 7b3c7b10-5b1e-40b3-860e-c6dd5197f0bb d859fbd3-d884-4090-a0ec-baf821c9abfd University College London 9780429017407 9781138580299 9780429507465 9781032085241 Wellcome Routledge 266 Wellcome Trust Wellcome open access
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Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities is the first book to reflect on the power of film in representing medical and health discourse in China in both the past and the present, as well as in shaping its future. Drawing on both feature and documentary films from mainland China, the chapters each engage with the field of medicine through the visual arts. They cover themes such as the history of doctors and their concepts of disease and therapies, understanding the patient experience of illness and death, and establishing empathy and compassion in medical practice, as well as the HIV/AIDs epidemic during the 1980s and 90s and changing attitudes towards disability. Inherently interdisciplinary in nature, the contributors therefore provide different perspectives from the fields of history, psychiatry, film studies, anthropology, linguistics, public health and occupational therapy, as they relate to China and people who identify as Chinese. Their combined approaches are united by a passion for improving the cross-cultural understanding of the body and ultimately healthcare itself.
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