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Lin, Shirley Shu-jung.

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Illness, body and personhood: An anthropological study of women's lives in Taiwan.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Illness, body and personhood: An anthropological study of women's lives in Taiwan./
Author:	Lin, Shirley Shu-jung.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 1993,
Description:	286 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06, Section: A, page: 2205.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International54-06A.
Subject:	Cultural anthropology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9330091

Illness, body and personhood: An anthropological study of women's lives in Taiwan.
Lin, Shirley Shu-jung.

Illness, body and personhood: An anthropological study of women's lives in Taiwan. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 1993 - 286 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 54-06, Section: A, page: 2205.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 1993.

This thesis focuses on how Taiwanese women perceive and deal with problems with their bodies. Research on women of Kuang-hsing, northeastern Taiwan indicates that cultural conception of the female body, illness and health practices are embedded in the social construction of personhood by a culture. Through texts of local history, interviews, and observations of women's lives and illness experiences, this study addresses three academic interests: Taiwanese concept of the person, Taiwanese concepts of illness and health care, and the position of women in Taiwanese society.Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122764
Cultural anthropology.

Illness, body and personhood: An anthropological study of women's lives in Taiwan.
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520 $a Taiwanese define and experience personhood in various social contexts: ethnicity, gender relations, relationships between the normal and the abnormal, between the central and the marginal, between the aged and the young, and between the moral and immoral. Through understanding women's lives and illness experiences, Taiwanese concept of the person reveals an embeddedness of cultural construction of hierarchical social relationships in society.
520 $a Taiwanese concepts of illness and health demonstrate Taiwanese perception of the human body and its relationships with the larger social world. Through defining, classifying and treating illnesses, Taiwanese perceive the human body as a cosmos regulated by the interaction of two symbolic forces: the yin and the yang. Taiwanese further extend the principle of yin/yang dichotomy to explain various social relationships: between men and women, between "our" group of people and "others," and between the living and the supernatural world. Responding to illness, Taiwanese health practices depict an interplay of relationships between the cultural conception of illness and hegemonic influences of medicine. Both illness etiology and traditional cultural institutions, e.g. the concept of fate, shape Taiwanese health practices, into a choice among the traditional medicine and Western medicine.
520 $a Cultural conceptions of women's bodies and their social positions affect Taiwanese women's health practices. The image of women as frequent health users is a symbolic reflection of women's vulnerable body as well as lowly positions in the patrilineal and patriarchal society. Elderly and marginal women further demonstrate the conflicts created by various hierarchical social relationships. Narratives of women's lives and illness experiences are parts of social, cultural and historical constructions of human history.
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