Medicine In China
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Medicine in China
Author | : Paul U. Unschuld |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 464 |
Release | : 2010-06 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780520266131 |
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In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traced the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records to present developments. This edition is updated with a new preface which details the immense ideological intersections between Chinese and European medicines in the past 25 years.
Medicine in China
Author | : Paul Ulrich Unschuld |
Publsiher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 0520050258 |
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Unschuld provides a description and analysis of the contents and structure of traditional Chinese pharmaceutical literature. Unschuld has selected some one hundred titles in this far-reaching study.
The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine 1850 1960
Author | : Bridie Andrews |
Publsiher | : UBC Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2014-04-01 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780774824347 |
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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.
Medical Transitions in Twentieth Century China
Author | : Bridie Andrews,Mary Brown Bullock |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2014-08-14 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780253014948 |
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“Rich insights into how one country has dealt with perhaps the most central issue for any human society: the health and wellbeing of its citizens.” —The Lancet This volume examines important aspects of China’s century-long search to provide appropriate and effective health care for its people. Four subjects—disease and healing, encounters and accommodations, institutions and professions, and people’s health—organize discussions across case studies of schistosomiasis, tuberculosis, mental health, and tobacco and health. Among the book’s significant conclusions are the importance of barefoot doctors in disseminating western medicine; the improvements in medical health and services during the long Sino-Japanese war; and the important role of the Chinese consumer. This is a thought-provoking read for health practitioners, historians, and others interested in the history of medicine and health in China.
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Author | : Volker Scheid |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 429 |
Release | : 2002-06-12 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9780822383710 |
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As a traditional healing art that has established a contemporary global presence, Chinese medicine defies categories and raises many interesting questions. If Chinese medicine is "traditional," why has it not disappeared with the rest of traditional Chinese society? If, as some claim, it is a science, what does that imply about what we call science? What is the secret of Chinese medicine's remarkable adaptability that has allowed it to prosper for more than 2,000 years? In Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China Volker Scheid presents an ethnography of Chinese medicine that seeks to answer these questions, but his ethnography is informed by some atypical approaches. Scheid, a medical anthropologist and practitioner of Chinese medicine in practice since 1983, has produced an ethnography that accepts plurality as an intrinsic and nonreducible aspect of medical practice. It has been widely noted that a patient visiting ten different practitioners of Chinese medicine may receive ten different prescriptions for the same complaint, yet many of these various treatments may be effective. In attempting to illuminate the plurality in Chinese medical practice, Scheid redefines-and in some cases abandons-traditional anthropological concepts such as tradition, culture, and practice in favor of approaches from disciplines such as science and technology studies, social psychology, and Chinese philosophy. As a result, his book sheds light not only on Chinese medicine but also on the Western academic traditions used to examine it and presents us with new perspectives from which to deliberate the future of Chinese medicine in a global context. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China is the product of two decades of research including numerous interviews and case studies. It will appeal to a western academic audience as well as practitioners of Chinese medicine and other interested medical professionals, including those from western biomedicine.
Medicine and Society in China
Author | : John Z. Bowers,Elizabeth Purcell |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : UOM:39015000288384 |
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Chinese Medicine and Healing
Author | : TJ Hinrichs,Linda L. Barnes |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 477 |
Release | : 2013-01-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780674047372 |
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In covering the subject of Chinese medicine, this book addresses topics such as oracle bones, the treatment of women, fertility and childbirth, nutrition, acupuncture, and Qi as well as examining Chinese medicine as practiced globally in places such as Africa, Australia, Vietnam, Korea, and the United States.
Chinese Drugs of Plant Origin
Author | : Weici Tang,Gerhard Eisenbrand |
Publsiher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 1005 |
Release | : 2013-06-29 |
Genre | : Medical |
ISBN | : 9783642737398 |
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Traditional Chinese medicine has been used for thousands of years by a large population. It is currently still serving many of the health needs of the Chinese people; and still enjoying their confi dence it is practised in China in parallel with modern Western medical treatment. In addition to scientific organisations dedi cated to modern Western medicine, e. g. the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and various medical schools, a series of parallel institutions have been established in China to promote traditional Chinese medicine, such as the Academy of Traditional Chinese Medicine and training institutions. Almost all hospitals in China have a department of traditional medicine. Furthermore, a large number of scientific journals are dedicated to traditional Chinese medicine, covering both experimental and clinical investigations. Medicinal materials constitute a key topic in the treatment of disease according to traditional Chinese medicine. The Chinese Pharmacopoeia (1985 edition) is therefore divided into two sepa rate volumes, Volume I containing traditional Chinese medicinal materials and preparations and Volume II containing pharmaceu tics of Western medicine. The oldest Chinese review of medicinal materials, Shennong Bencao Jing (100-200 A. D. ), covered 365 herbal drugs. The clas sic compilation in this field, Bencao Gangmu (Compendium of Materia Medica), was published in 1578 by Li Shi-zhen and recorded as many as 1898 crude drugs of plant, animal and min eral origin.