TY  - CHAP
A1  - Messner, Angelika C.
T1  - Gesundheit ist ein Verb – Medizin ist mehrsprachig und vielstimmig: Chinesische und andere Perspektiven
T2  - Was ist Gesundheit? : Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven aus Medizin, Geschichte und Kultur
N2  - Doing Health: Chinese and Other Perspectives. In ancient China, health was related to the individual person and their unique life. Both medical and philosophical texts testify to this: Maintaining vitality in the course of one’s own lifespan was a priority. Daily caring for one’s health revolved around Qi 氣 – a universal medium that is at the same time material and spiritual, emotional and neutral, unitary and diverse, as well as biological, psychological and physiological. Health thus becomes a verb, an act, a property to be preserved, a wavering and oscillating between pleasure and strength. Not least because of the pandemic, the demand for ‘traditional’ healing expertise rose worldwide. Against this background, early Chinese views on life are of unprecedented importance: From their perspective, a reorientation of public and global health policies seems inevitable.
KW  - Epidemie
KW  - Gesundheitswesen
KW  - Heilkunde
KW  - Hygiene
KW  - China
KW  - Kulturkreis
KW  - Lebenskraft
KW  - Psychosomatik
KW  - Resilienz
KW  - SARS
Y1  - 2021
UR  - https://edoc.bbaw.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/3664
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:b4-opus4-36649
SN  - 9783110713336
SP  - 133
EP  - 145
PB  - De Gruyter
CY  - Berlin, Boston
ER  -