Film and the Chinese Medical Humanities

Bibliographic Data

ID24163390
AuthorsVivienne Lo (0000-0003-1360-4308), C Berry (0000-0002-5752-3107), Guo Liping
Year2019
Publication date2019-12-06
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueFilm and the Chinese Medical Humanities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherRoutledge (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.4324/9780429507465
ISBN9780429507465
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited40

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.A key resource for educators in the Medical Humanities, this book will be useful to students and scholars of Chinese Studies and Film Studies as well as global health, medical anthropology and medical history.

Art · Digital humanities · Humanities · Medical education · Medical humanities · Empathy and Medical Education · Film in Education and Therapy · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Medicine