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FICTION MEDICINE AND THE COMMUNIST REVOLUTION IN THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINAZihan Wang (9171503) 28 July 2020 (has links)
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<p> This dissertation examines
medical representations, or what I call “fiction medicine,” in post-1949
Chinese literature and film. It is not uncommon to evaluate whether medical
facts are scientifically portrayed in literary and cinematic works. Insightful
and reasonable as this method is, the interpretation of relevant descriptions
from a single medical perspective tends to exclude what may be labeled as
misrepresentations from scholarly attention. Therefore, without judging the
value of fiction medicine in accordance with scientific standards, this
dissertation analyzes how and why medical (mis)representations are formed in
the way they are shown, which allows me to unearth those factors, such as
politics, international relations, ideology, and the like, that exert
considerable influence on the construction of medical landscape in cultural
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<p> By exploring the interaction between
representations and medicine under the Chinese revolutionary context, I argue that
during the socialist period (1949-78), while revolutionary concerns tightly
regulated the writing of fiction medicine to consolidate the Chinese Communist
Party (CCP)’s rule, the production of fiction medicine was not always
monolithic, containing tensions and even resistances against the prevailing
ideology. I also argue that, after 1978, although socialist fiction medicine
was deconstructed in many ways, some remnants of its legacies have kept
influencing contemporary literary and cinematic imaginations. Based on my main
arguments, I will further explore why some socialist legacies were preserved
and remained influential while others were abandoned as reminders of the past. I
suggest that this phenomenon was highly related to the shifting goals of the
Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in the post-1978 political, ideological, and
economic reorientation.</p>
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InvisibleHanass-Hancock, Jill 29 September 2008 (has links)
Die Dissertation beschäftigt sich mit den Vorstellungen von Krankheit, Behinderung und HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal, Südafrika. Besonderer Augenmerk liegt dabei auf den kulturellen Wurzeln und sozialen Repräsentationen von Behinderung und HIV/AIDS. Die Ergebnisse der Studie zeigen dass die sozialen Interpretationen von Beeinträchtigung erheblich dazu beitragen dass Menschen mit Behinderungen in KwaZulu-Natal einem hohen HIV-Ansteckungsrisiko ausgesetzt sind und gleichzeitig dafür sorgen dass diese Menschen kaum Zugang zu Aufklärung und medizinischer Versorgung haben. Die Studie geht bei der Analyse über den Blickwinkel Behinderung hinaus und beleuchtet südafrikanische Gesellschaftsverhältnisse auf makrokultureller, mikrokultureller und individueller Ebene. Die Studie schließt mit einem Ausblick auf Veränderungsmögichkeiten im südafrikanischen Kontext. / The study focuses on the interweaving patterns of stigmatisation between disability and HIV/AIDS in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. The study was designed to understand the cultural roots of non-medical representations of disability and HIV/AIDS. The results show strong evidence that the way in which people are prone to think about and respond to disability and HIV/AIDS exposes people with disability to a particularly high risk of infection while simultaneously decreasing access to treatment and care. While unfolding hidden meanings and notions about disability and HIV/AIDS, the study analyses both phenomena on a macrocultural, microcultural and individual level. The study concludes with key messages emerging from the empirical research as well as from historical and policy analysis. Through this, it attempts to provide some guidance for transformation.
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