The transmission of Chinese medicine / Elisabeth Hsu.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hsu, Elisabeth, author.

Series:

Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 7.

Cambridge studies in medical anthropology ; 7

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Chinese--Study and teaching--China.

Medicine, Chinese.

Medical anthropology--Study and teaching--China.

Medical anthropology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 296 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Cover; Half-title; Series-title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; Note on Chinese terms; Introduction: ways of learning; 1 The secret transmission of knowledge and practice; 2 Qigong and the concept of qi; 3 The personal transmission of knowledge; 4 Interpreting a classical Chinese medical text; 5 The standardised transmission of knowledge; 6 Teaching from TCM texts; Discussion: styles of knowing; Appendix: Curriculum for TCM regular students and acumoxa and massage specialists at the Yunnan TCM College in 1988...9; Glossary of medical and philosophical terms

ReferencesGeneral index; Index of Chinese book titles and chapter headings discussed in text; Index of Chinese personal names

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p.270-286) and indexes.

ISBN:

1-107-11644-9

1-280-43244-6

0-511-15184-5

0-511-05174-3

0-511-17292-3

9786610432448

0-511-61245-1

0-521-64542-5

0-511-30321-1

OCLC:

71332382