Books written by Nancy N. Chen
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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
Dr. David Eisenberg, who wrote about qigong in the 1970s in Encounters with Qi (Eisenberg and Wright 1985), was included as an interlocutor for the special segment. When Moyers and Eisenberg went to clinics or parks and spoke to qigong ...
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Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations
The essays in Bodies in the Making: Transgressions and Transformations address the proliferation of such transformative practices as tattooing, piercing, self-cutting, cosmetic and transsexual surgery, prosthetics, organ transplants and ...
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China Urban: Ethnographies of Contemporary Culture
Through close attention to everyday lives and narratives and with a particular focus on gender, market, and spatial practices, this collection stresses that, in the case of China, rural life and the impact of socialism must be considered in ...
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Asian Biotech: Ethics and Communities of Fate
As many of the essays in this collection illustrate, state involvement in biotech initiatives is driving the emergence of “biosovereignty,” an increasing pressure for state control over biological resources, commercial health products, ...
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Food, Medicine, and the Quest for Good Health: Nutrition, Medicine, and Culture
Drawing on medical texts and food therapy practices from around the world and throughout history, Nancy N. Chen locates old and new crossovers between food and medicine in different social and cultural contexts.
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Breathing Spaces: Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
Breathing Spaces brings to life the narratives of numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats, revealing the varied and often dramatic ways they cope with market reform and social changes in China.
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Bioinsecurity and Vulnerability
However, the contributors to this volume argue against biosecurity as the new status quo by focusing instead on the ugly underbelly.