Emily Baum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3785558 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Emily Baum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Emily |
| FAMILY NAME | Baum |
| SIGNATURE | BAUM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California System |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Global Enlightenment
Maoism and mental illness
This article offers a preliminary analysis of psychiatric treatment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the basis of interviews and rare case records obtained from ‘F Hospital’ in southern China. In contrast to the prevailing view of psychiatry during this time, which highlights either rampant patient abuse or revolutionary ideology, we show that psychiatric treatment at this facility was not radically altered by the politics of the Maoist …
Acupuncture Anesthesia on American Bodies
This article explores the brief American fascination with acupuncture anesthesia, a technique in which needling was used in place of, or in combination with, chemical anesthetics during surgery. In 1971, a series of American medical delegations began traveling to China to observe the procedure and gauge its viability. While some of these physicians were optimistic about the technique's therapeutic possibilities, others were antagonistic to its fe…
Enchantment in an Age of Reform
Soon after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, China experienced a 'fortune-telling fever'. After having been suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party for the previous three decades, fortune tellers re-emerged in the 1980s to publish extensively on the topic and ply their trade in public. Yet despite the general relaxation of state policies toward folk beliefs, fortune telling was still considered a 'superstition' and therefore remained against the…
Tamara Venit Shelton. Herbs and Roots
Tamara Venit Shelton. Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace Tamara Venit Shelton. Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii + 344. $37.50. Hdbk. 978-0-3002-4361-1. Emily Baum Emily Baum University of California Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Sch…
After Eunuchs
Reviewed by: After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China by Howard Chiang Emily Baum Howard Chiang. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 416 pp. $65.00 (978-0-2311-8578-3). In the past few years, Howard Chiang has edited or co-edited an astounding number of scholarly volumes on topics ranging from psychiatry and sexuality in …
The Invention of Madness by Emily Baum
The Invention of Madness
Republican Lens
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Enchantment in an Age of Reform
Soon after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, China experienced a 'fortune-telling fever'. After having been suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party for the previous three decades, fortune tellers re-emerged in the 1980s to publish extensively on the topic and ply their trade in public. Yet despite the general relaxation of state policies toward folk beliefs, fortune telling was still considered a 'superstition' and therefore remained against the…
Neither Donkey nor Horse
Republican Lens
The Invention of Madness
After Eunuchs
Reviewed by: After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China by Howard Chiang Emily Baum Howard Chiang. After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018. 416 pp. $65.00 (978-0-2311-8578-3). In the past few years, Howard Chiang has edited or co-edited an astounding number of scholarly volumes on topics ranging from psychiatry and sexuality in …
The Invention of Madness by Emily Baum
Tamara Venit Shelton. Herbs and Roots
Tamara Venit Shelton. Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace Tamara Venit Shelton. Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2019. Pp. xiii + 344. $37.50. Hdbk. 978-0-3002-4361-1. Emily Baum Emily Baum University of California Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Sch…
Acupuncture Anesthesia on American Bodies
This article explores the brief American fascination with acupuncture anesthesia, a technique in which needling was used in place of, or in combination with, chemical anesthetics during surgery. In 1971, a series of American medical delegations began traveling to China to observe the procedure and gauge its viability. While some of these physicians were optimistic about the technique's therapeutic possibilities, others were antagonistic to its fe…
Enchantment in an Age of Reform
Soon after the death of Mao Zedong in 1976, China experienced a 'fortune-telling fever'. After having been suppressed by the Chinese Communist Party for the previous three decades, fortune tellers re-emerged in the 1980s to publish extensively on the topic and ply their trade in public. Yet despite the general relaxation of state policies toward folk beliefs, fortune telling was still considered a 'superstition' and therefore remained against the…
Maoism and mental illness
This article offers a preliminary analysis of psychiatric treatment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the basis of interviews and rare case records obtained from ‘F Hospital’ in southern China. In contrast to the prevailing view of psychiatry during this time, which highlights either rampant patient abuse or revolutionary ideology, we show that psychiatric treatment at this facility was not radically altered by the politics of the Maoist …
A Global Enlightenment
Political science (6 works) · China (4 works) · History (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Chinese history and philosophy (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Art (2 works)