This thesis mainly presented the process of me as a social worker in the mainland China, picked up the interested in the medical social work when I studied and practiced in Taiwan, and returned to inquiry the practice of local medical and health services in the history of the mainland China society in order to explore the new path of the practice of medical social work.
This thesis is divided into nine chapters. The chapter 1 mainly introduced the origin of this research. The chapter 2 mainly introduced the action research method of social change orientation as study method and the development process of the researcher's study in action. The chapter 3 mainly introduced the teachers and students who started to participate in the action research of the social change orientation in Fu Jen University, and used the Yayue dance to carry out the body-mind recovery activities for different groups. Through the understanding of the social and cultural practice of body-mind recovery in Taiwan society, it has become the starting point for my continued medical social work, and it is also the catalyst for me to return to inquiry mainland medical and health services. In the process, I also started the study and practice of the Yayue dance, and opened the road of body-mind recovery of my deconstruction and reconstruction of my body-mind in the chapter 4. Through the experience of my own body-mind recovery by Yayue dance, I reminded of the pains of my parents and relatives in my hometown due to long-term labor. How can I use some methods of body-mind recovery like Yayue dance to relieve their pains in daily life? Thus, the chapter 5 mainly looked at the body-mind life of my parents, and saw the body-mind suffering of many peoples in the rural society who live at the grassroots level like my parents. And this also allowed me to enter into the study of rural medical and health services based on concerned about the body and mind strain of rural people, and in the discussion with teachers and classmates, I began to study the local service practice of a barefoot doctor, which I described it in the chapter 6. Through this inquired, I had seen my fracture of the understanding of traditional medical and health services, which further guided me to study the history and combed the overall changes of rural health care services in the mainland in the chapter 7. This also triggered my emotions and actions to connect the broken history. In chapter 8, I entered into the rural areas to carry out participatory field research. Finally, the chapter 9 returned to myself as a medical social work learner, practitioners and researcher, how to picked up the local social work experience in rural medical and health services to promote the healthy rural construction, and base on pick up the excellent cultural assets of body-mind recovery in social history and culture, becoming to a medical social work action researcher who is can combine the Chinese and Western medicine services within practice, and present possible field developments of multi-practical methods of body-mind recovery.