Vistopia
Cover of Illness and Pain: Rethinking Contemporary Health Care
Illness and Pain: Rethinking Contemporary Health Care
See Suffering Clearly and Rediscover Health and Mutual Care
Completed · 41 episodes
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Audio in Chinese
Liu Yu: Seeing One Another Is the Foundation of Community Yan Fei: Let Modern Medicine Recognize the Dignity of Human Life Huang Jianbo: Caring for Illness and Pain with “Cool Passion” Jing Jun: Asking About the Social Roots of Human Suffering 1. Health as a Social and Cultural Question 2. What Kind of Medical-Social Ecology Do We Face in China? 3. Does Biopower Control Us from Birth to Death? 4. Colonial Medicine: Should Western Medicine Be Called “Global Medicine”? 5. What Can the History of Chinese Medicine Teach Us Today? 6. Medical Pluralism: The Predicament and Vitality of Chinese Medicine 7. How Did Western Medicine Enter China? A History from the Global South 8. Who Defines “Disease”? Subhealth, Menopause, Homosexuality, Internet Addiction, and More 9. Does Social Position Determine Survival? The Titanic Effect 10. Do People Higher in the Hierarchy Live Longer? The Social Gradient in Health 11. Endure Even Unbearable Pain? East Asian Pain Culture and Medical Risk 12. A Lower Level Below the Bottom? Seeing People at Society's Furthest Margins 13. “I'll Die to Show You”: Family Oppression, Social Injustice, and Women's Suicide 14. What Drove China's Falling Suicide Rate? Rural Women, Migration, and Social Change 15. A Society Without Elders? Older People Driven Toward Suicide 16. Connections, Assembly-Line Treatment, Alienated Doctors: How Troubled Is Chinese Health Care? 17. Uncertainty at the End of Life: The Need for and Barriers to Advance Care Planning 18. Can My Family Decide for My Life? Disclosure and Medical Familism 19. Money, Death, and Institutions: What Causes Medical Disputes in China? Q&A | Could Fully State-Funded Health Care Work in China? 20. Can Human Bodies Be Traded? A Critique of the Body Economy 21. Can Life Be Given? Resisting the Body Economy Through Reciprocal Exchange 22. From Seeking Treatment to Mutual Support: Are Patient Groups a Powerful Collective Force? 23. Why Did “Favor Blood” Return as Voluntary Donation Grew? Unintended Consequences of Medical Intervention 24. How Will We Grow Old? Aging, Family, and the Difficult Choice of Residential Care 25. Monastic Care as a New Path for China's Elderly? Lessons from Buddhist Homes, Part 1 26. Where Do Comfort and Release at Life's End Come From? Lessons from Buddhist Homes, Part 2 27. Too Painful to Speak, Too Hard to Let Go: Resolving China's End-of-Life Dilemma 28. How Can Unfinished Grief Be Mended? Memory Bears and Soul Menders 29. Are Humans Naturally Able to Live to Ninety? Plagues and the Age of Disease 30. What Hidden Problems Did the Pandemic Obscure? Rethinking Public Health Response 31. What Does Animal Health Have to Do with Ours? Lessons from One Health 32. Can the Human-Dog Bond Help Prevent Disease? Emotion and Epidemics 33. What Can Stories of Great Physicians Teach Society? The Meaning of Bian Que's Parable 34. Will Pandemic Lessons Vanish from Collective Memory? The Bian Que Effect and Visible Versus Hidden Knowledge Conclusion? | Is Suicide Caused by Weakness? A Sociological Critique of Modern Medicine The Times Are Changing—Are We Ready?