essay
Traditional and modern psychiatric care in Taiwan
Medicine in Chinese cultures : comparative studies of health care in Chinese and other societies • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1975 • Pages: 177-194
By: Tseng, Wen-shing.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay surveys the major forms of psychiatric health care available in Taiwan and discusses its delivery in the social and cultural context of various classes of the island's inhabitants. Tseng is concerned with the development of modern scientific clinical practice as well as with 'supernatural' healing practices such as shamanism, fortune-telling, and physiognomy.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Personality disorders
- Theory of disease
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Taiwan Hokkien
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 1995
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Psychiatrist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- M. A. Marcus
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- No date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- not specified
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Wen-shing Tseng
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese