Traditional Chinese medicine : heritage and adaptation
Medicine, Chinese Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Columbia University Press
2018
EISBN 9780231546263
Origins and characteristics of Chinese medicine.
The lack of existential autonomy.
The longing for existential autonomy.
Quotations from the medical classics.
The banality of violence.
The Mawangdui texts.
Anatomy, physiology, and pathology in the new medicine.
Deficiencies in the credibility of the new medicine.
The alternative model : the view from illness.
Radical healing : life as a form of disease.
Between antiquity and the modern age.
Two medical authors of the Ming and Qing dynasties : Wan Quan and Xu Dachun.
The confrontation with the western way of life.
The persuasiveness of Chinese medicine.
The opinions of intellectuals and politicians.
The selection.
The surprise.
The creative reception of Chinese medicine in the west.
The objectification of the discussion : opportunity and challenge.
The lack of existential autonomy.
The longing for existential autonomy.
Quotations from the medical classics.
The banality of violence.
The Mawangdui texts.
Anatomy, physiology, and pathology in the new medicine.
Deficiencies in the credibility of the new medicine.
The alternative model : the view from illness.
Radical healing : life as a form of disease.
Between antiquity and the modern age.
Two medical authors of the Ming and Qing dynasties : Wan Quan and Xu Dachun.
The confrontation with the western way of life.
The persuasiveness of Chinese medicine.
The opinions of intellectuals and politicians.
The selection.
The surprise.
The creative reception of Chinese medicine in the west.
The objectification of the discussion : opportunity and challenge.
