essay
Medical systems in a Taiwan village: ONG-IA-KONG, the plague god as modern physician
Medicine in Chinese cultures : comparative studies of health care in Chinese and other societies • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1975 • Pages: 115-141
By: Gould-Martin, Katherine.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay is concerned with the different sorts of problems presented by patients to Chinese secular doctors, sacred doctors, and Western-style doctors. In each case, significant differences exist in a diagnosis and therapeutic procedure. Unlike Western medical practice, which villagers experience impersonally, the cult of ONG-IA-KONG offers solutions to practical and medical problems that fit within a coherent world view shared by villagers.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Magical and mental therapy
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- Medical therapy
- Spirits and gods
- Magicians and diviners
- Congregations
- 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.
- Ethnologist
- 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)
- Taipei hsien, P'eng-ts'o li, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Katherine Gould Martin
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese