Collana |
Sinica venetiana
Miscellanea | La lingua cinese: variazioni sul tema
Capitolo | Parole che legano, parole che separano
Parole che legano, parole che separano
Discorso e produzione di significati sulla malattia mentale nella RPC del XX e XXI secolo
Abstract
The problem of mental illness has compelled different medical systems to produce original explanatory models in order to interpret the disease and offer cures and remedies. Every medical system is a culturally informed structure that provides illness aetiology and related therapies on a cultural shared basis. The problematization of mental illness, on the other hand, is a discursive formation brought to society by élites holding disciplinary and psychiatric power. Different historical and geographic contexts have brought different discourses on mental illness. This paper aims to take a broad overview on medical, social, and legal discourse about mental illness in Mainland China, offering a basis for further investigation about the new People’s Republic of China’s Mental Illness Law and PRC policies about social and civil rights of the mentally ill. Lexical and discursive analysis are based on a medical anthropology and cultural studies theoretical framework.
Lingua: it
Keywords Chinese language • Cultural studies • Medical anthropology
Copyright © 2015 Tobia Maschio. This is an open-access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction is permitted, provided that the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. The license allows for commercial use. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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