Stories to Be Told: Korean Doctors Between Hwa-byung (Fire-Illness) and Depression, 1970-2011

Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 81-104

  Suh, Soyoung ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Constrained fire; Depression; han; Hwa byung (Fire illness); Illness narratives; Psychiatry in Korea

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; KOREAN MEDICINE; PSYCHIATRY; SOUTH KOREA;

CULTURE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICINE, KOREAN TRADITIONAL; PSYCHIATRY; REPUBLIC OF KOREA;

EID: 84874556442     PISSN: 0165005X     EISSN: 1573076X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-012-9291-x     Document Type: Article

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