When Love Meets Drugs: Pharmaceuticalizing Ambivalence in Post-Socialist China

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 51-77

  Ma, Zhiying ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambivalence; Intimacy; Pharmaceuticalization; Post Socialist China; Psychiatry

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CASE REPORT; CHINA; CULTURAL FACTOR; EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN RELATION; JEALOUSY; LOVE; MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICAL SYSTEM; POLITICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSIS; SPOUSE;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHINA; CULTURAL CHARACTERISTICS; EXPRESSED EMOTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; JEALOUSY; LOVE; MENTAL HEALTH; POLITICS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; SOCIALISM; SPOUSES;

EID: 84857686229     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-012-9247-1     Document Type: Article

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