essay
Sacred and secular medicine in a Taiwan village: a study of cosmological disorders
Medicine in Chinese cultures : comparative studies of health care in Chinese and other societies • Washington, D.c. • Published In 1975 • Pages: 91-113
By: Martin, Emily.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This essay deals with '…some of the basic concepts that play a part in Chinese villagers' understanding of bodily health or sickness' (p. 91). Based on data collected in the village of Ch'i-nan, Ahern presents ideas about hot and cold, yin and yang in the body and in society; the importance to patients of knowing the cause of an illness; and the process of finding a cure.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Gratification and control of hunger
- Diet
- Pharmaceuticals
- Magical and mental therapy
- Medical therapy
- Ethnophysiology
- 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
- Marlene Martin
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1969-1973
- 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)
- Ch'i-nan village, Taipei hsien, Hai-shan region, Taiwan
- NotesAdditional notes
- Emily M. Ahern
- Includes bibliography
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Taiwanese