Classical Chinese medicine : theory, methodology and therapy in its philosophical framework / by Keekok Lee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lee, Keekok, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine, Chinese Traditional.

Medicine, Chinese--Philosophy.

Medicine, Chinese.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 499 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This volume completes a trilogy (Lee, 2012, 2017) on the philosophy of medicine, Western and Chinese. Its immediate prequel (Lee, 2017) sets out in general outline the philosophical and methodological core of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM); this volume fleshes out that "skeleton" by examining in detail its peculiar concepts and characteristics, such as Getihua/Personalised Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Tianren-xiangying (Macro-Micro-cosmic Wholism), Zhèng-Fang Wholism (Wholism at the level of diagnosis and treatment), and Mind-Body Wholism (the person as primitive concept). CCM is here shown to instantiate "ecosystem science", which is post-Newtonian in orientation, departing from familiar Newtonian landmarks such as Reductionism and linearity, resting on thing-ontology for a non-reductionist, non-linear science. This approach highlights a rich irony and paradox: namely, how CCM in being backward-looking (relying on classical texts as foundational texts and prescriptions of some two thousand years standing) simultaneously manages to be at the cutting edge of scientific thinking today.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter One

Background and Nature of the Book

Summary of chapters

Conclusion

Chapter Two

Introduction

History: a brief outline

Is the Jingluo network other than fictional?

Some methodological comments

CCM's own understanding of the Jingluo network and the relationship between effect and cause

Chapter Three

Internal reasons

External reason: the spirit of Positivism

The context distinction

The context of generating the Wuxing hypothesis (CGH) and the context of testing it (CTH)

AWT: throwing the baby out with the bath water?

Chapter Four

CCM, Wholism and Ecosystem Science/Science

Preventive Medicine (Primary Meaning) in the context of CCM as Ecosystem Thinking

Chapter Five

The origin of Preventive Medicine in the narrow sense in Chinese thinking

Preventive Medicine: shang gong, zhong gong and xia gong

Preventive Medicine in CCM and Preventive Biomedicine in Biomedicine

Chapter Six

Cartesian dualism and its aftermath for Western philosophy and its medicine

The Humean Legacy

CCM: Mind-Body Wholism

Biomedicine and CCM: psychosomatic disorders/illnesses

The Placebo phenomenon: Biomedicine, Science and CCM

Chapter Seven

CCM: Personalised Medicine/Getihua Medicine

Biomedicine: Precision Medicine/Personalized Medicine

Randomised Controlled Trials and Evidence-based Medicine

Personalized/Precision Medicine, Getihua Medicine and the Biomedical framework

Chapter Eight

Biomedicine and CCM

Illnesses categorised in terms of Deficiency or Excess

Concept of Zhèng

Qinghao, qinghaosu, fangzi and Biomedical pharmacology.

Biomedicine and Getihua Medicine from the standpoint of Zhèng and Fang

Fang and food: food as medicinal

Assessing the cause-effect relationship

Chapter Nine

Absurdity 1

Absurdity 2

Absurdity 3

Absurdity 4

Chapter Ten

Tianren-xiangying, the Cyclic Ascending-Descending Law of Nature, Macro-Micro-cosmic Wholism and Yidaoyi

Axiomatic construction of CCM in terms of its Laws of Nature

The Person-body

Contextual-dyadic Thinking

Chapter Eleven

Integration as assimilation

The Chinese project of IM

The TCM project at the level of drug use

Exploring the incoherence of Lake's account of IM

A respectful partnership

Chapter Twelve

Summary in ten points

Appendix One

The textual approach

The non-textual approach

Appendix Two

Life

The fate of his work following his death

Appendix Three

What is this fallacy?

CCM as (Han) body politics writ large

Appendix Four

Why Bian Que is controversial

Some biographical details

Bian Que and Sima Qian

Bian Que, the Hanfeizi and the Fallacy of Misplaced Analysis

References and Select Bibliography

Chinese Historical Periods and Dynasties

Glossary of Some Chinese Terms in Pinyin

Index.

Notes:

Sequel to Philosophical foundations of classical Chinese medicine / Keekok Lee. 2017.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-5275-1426-9

OCLC:

1046634299