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Traditional Chinese medicine : heritage and adaptation / Paul U. Unschuld ; translated by Bridie J. Andrews.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin. English
- Language:
- English
- German
- Subjects (All):
- Medicine, Chinese.
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional.
- Medical Subjects:
- Medicine, Chinese Traditional.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 169 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- This book explains the ideas and practice of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in antiquity to today. Paul U. Unschuld describes medicine's close connection with politics and society throughout Chinese history, bringing together texts, techniques, and worldviews to understand changing Chinese attitudes toward healing and the significance of traditional Chinese medicine in both China and the Western world. This concise and compelling introduction to medical thought and history suggests that Chinese medicine is also a guide to Chinese culture. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- Traditional Chinese medicine.
- ISBN:
- 9780231175005
- 0231175000
- 9780231175012
- 0231175019
- OCLC:
- 985974563
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