Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China

Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
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Publisher : Duke University Press
Total Pages : 436
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ISBN-10 : 0822328720
ISBN-13 : 9780822328728
Rating : 4/5 (20 Downloads)

Synopsis Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China by : Volker Scheid

DIVThis ethnography of contemporary Chinese medicine that covers both Chinese medical education and practice./div

Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine

Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 208
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ISBN-10 : 9780791480595
ISBN-13 : 0791480593
Rating : 4/5 (95 Downloads)

Synopsis Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine by : Yanhua Zhang

Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedical model. Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine offers an ethnographic account of emotion-related disorders as they are conceived, talked about, experienced, and treated in clinics of Chinese medicine in contemporary China. While Chinese medicine (zhongyi) has been predominantly categorized as herbal therapy that treats physical disorders, it is also well known that Chinese patients routinely go to zhongyi clinics for treatment of illness that might be diagnosed as psychological or emotional in the West. Through participant observation, interviews, case studies, and zhongyi publications, both classic and modern, the author explores the Chinese notion of "body-person," unravels cultural constructions of emotion, and examines the way Chinese medicine manipulates body-mind connections.

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960

The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960
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Publisher : UBC Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9780774824347
ISBN-13 : 0774824344
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Synopsis The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 by : Bridie Andrews

Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.

Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China

Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China
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Publisher : University of Michigan Center for chinese
Total Pages : 549
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ISBN-10 : 089264074X
ISBN-13 : 9780892640744
Rating : 4/5 (4X Downloads)

Synopsis Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China by : Nathan Sivin

Chinese Medicine Men

Chinese Medicine Men
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 0674021614
ISBN-13 : 9780674021617
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Chinese Medicine Men by : Sherman Cochran

Cochran reconsiders the nature and role of consumer culture in the spread of globalization and illuminates enduring features of the Chinese experience of consumer culture. The history of Chinese medicine men in pre-socialist China, he suggests, has relevance for the 21st century because they achieved goals that resonate with their successors today.

Classical Chinese Medicine

Classical Chinese Medicine
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Publisher : The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press
Total Pages : 697
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ISBN-10 : 9789882370579
ISBN-13 : 9882370578
Rating : 4/5 (79 Downloads)

Synopsis Classical Chinese Medicine by : Liu Lihong

The English edition of Liu Lihong’s milestone work is a sublime beacon for the profession of Chinese medicine in the 21st century. Classical Chinese Medicine delivers a straightforward critique of the politically motivated “integration” of traditional Chinese wisdom with Western science during the last sixty years, and represents an ardent appeal for the recognition of Chinese medicine as a science in its own right. Professor Liu’s candid presentation has made this book a bestseller in China, treasured not only by medical students and doctors, but by vast numbers of non-professionals who long for a state of health and well-being that is founded in a deeper sense of cultural identity. Oriental medicine education has made great strides in the West since the 1970s, but clear guidelines regarding the “traditional” nature of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) remain undefined. Classical Chinese Medicine not only delineates the educational and clinical problems faced by the profession in both East and West, but transmits concrete and inspiring guidance on how to effectively engage with ancient texts and designs in the postmodern age. Using the example of the Shanghanlun (Treatise on Cold Damage), one of the most important Chinese medicine classics, Liu Lihong develops a compelling roadmap for holistic medical thinking that links the human body to nature and the universe at large.

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine

The Transmission of Chinese Medicine
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 726
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ISBN-10 : 0521645425
ISBN-13 : 9780521645423
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Transmission of Chinese Medicine by : Elisabeth Hsu

This is one of the first studies of traditional medical education in an Asian country. Conducting extensive fieldwork in Kunming, the capital of Yunnan Province in the People's Republic of China, Elisabeth Hsu became the disciple of, a Qigong master a scholarly private practitioner, who almost wordlessly conveys esoteric knowledge and techniques; attended seminars given by a senior Chinese doctor, an acupuncturist and masseur, who plunges his followers into the study of arcane medical classics, and studied with students at the Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, where the standardised knowledge of official Chinese medicine is inculcated. Dr Hsu compares the theories and practices of these different Chinese medical traditions and shows how the same technical terms may take on different meanings in different contexts. This is a fascinating, insider's account of traditional medical practices, which brings out the way in which the context of instruction shapes knowledge.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine
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Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Total Pages : 796
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ISBN-10 : 9781135008970
ISBN-13 : 1135008973
Rating : 4/5 (70 Downloads)

Synopsis Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine by : Vivienne Lo

The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine is an extensive, interdisciplinary guide to the nature of traditional medicine and healing in the Chinese cultural region, and its plural epistemologies. Established experts and the next generation of scholars interpret the ways in which Chinese medicine has been understood and portrayed from the beginning of the empire (third century BCE) to the globalisation of Chinese products and practices in the present day, taking in subjects from ancient medical writings to therapeutic movement, to talismans for healing and traditional medicines that have inspired global solutions to contemporary epidemics. The volume is divided into seven parts: Longue Durée and Formation of Institutions and Traditions Sickness and Healing Food and Sex Spiritual and Orthodox Religious Practices The World of Sinographic Medicine Wider Diasporas Negotiating Modernity This handbook therefore introduces the broad range of ideas and techniques that comprise pre-modern medicine in China, and the historiographical and ethnographic approaches that have illuminated them. It will prove a useful resource to students and scholars of Chinese studies, and the history of medicine and anthropology. It will also be of interest to practitioners, patients and specialists wishing to refresh their knowledge with the latest developments in the field. The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license

Healing with Poisons

Healing with Poisons
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Publisher : University of Washington Press
Total Pages : 278
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ISBN-10 : 9780295749013
ISBN-13 : 0295749016
Rating : 4/5 (13 Downloads)

Synopsis Healing with Poisons by : Yan Liu

Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.

Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006

Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 596
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105124077053
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006 by : Volker Scheid

During the 1950s and 1960s, the heirs of Menghe medicine were key players in creating the institutional framework for contemporary Chinese medicine. Their students are now practicing all over the world, shaping Chinese medicine in Los Angeles, New York, Oxford, Mallorca, and Berlin. The history of the Menghe current is relevant to anyone interested in the development of Chinese medicine in late imperial and modern China. This book traces Chinese medical history along the currents created by generations of physicians linked to each other by a shared heritage of learning, by descent and kinship, by sentiments of native place as well as nationalist fervor, by personal rivalries and economic competition, by the struggle for the survival of tradition and glorious visions of a new global medicine. On the level of both theory and practice, this history marks a departure from the focus on texts and ideas that has dominated Western engagement with Chinese medicine to date. Its goal is to locate medicine within the concrete lives of physicians and their patients, restoring an agency to their actions that easily gets lost in our search for the forces or structures that shape historical process. To this end, the author interweaves social history and medical case studies, ethnography and biography to narrate a story of Chinese medicine that is very different from any that has been told before.