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Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China (Paperback)
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Mental Illness, Dementia and Family in China (Paperback)
Series: Routledge/Asian Studies Association of Australia ASAA East Asian Series
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With rapid economic progress and increasing life expectancy in East
Asian societies, more attention is being paid by their governments,
the media and the academy to mental illness and dementia. While
clinical research on mental illness and dementia in Chinese
societies acknowledges the importance of culture in shaping
people's experiences of these illnesses, how Chinese culture shapes
people's understandings of and responses to mental illness and
dementia has yet to be interrogated to any depth. Mental Illness,
Dementia and Family in China breaks new ground in exploring how
Chinese culture, namely, the understandings, norms, values and
scripts that people acquire through being members of a Chinese
community, shapes contemporary stories of mental illness, dementia
and family care-giving. This book is innovative in examining and
comparing stories which have been drawn from both real life ('life
stories'), as well as from film and television productions ('filmic
stories'). These two forms effectively complement each other, with
life stories generally presenting an 'insider's' account and filmic
stories generally presenting an 'outsider's' account. What remains
unvoiced in one kind of story may be voiced in the other kind.
Drawing on the perspectives and analytic approaches of narrative
analysis and cultural studies, Guy Ramsay uncovers
culturally-shaped continuities and departures in representations of
time, identity and cause of illness as well as in the language
employed in contemporary stories of mental illness, dementia and
family care-giving in China. This book will be invaluable to
students and scholars working on Chinese cultural studies and Asian
social policy, as well as those interested in psychiatry, mental
health and disability studies more broadly.
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