Historical Epistemology And The Making Of Modern Chinese Medicine

Author : Howard Chiang
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781784991913

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Historical epistemology and the making of modern Chinese medicine by Howard Chiang Pdf

This collection expands the history of Chinese medicine by bridging the philosophical concerns of epistemology and the history and cultural politics of transregional medical formations. Topics range from the spread of gingko’s popularity from East Asia to the West to the appeal of acupuncture for complementing in-vitro fertilisation regimens, from the modernisation of Chinese anatomy and forensic science to the evolving perceptions of the clinical efficacy of Chinese medicine. The individual essays cohere around the powerful theoretical-methodological approach, 'historical epistemology', which challenges the seemingly constant and timeless status of such rudimentary but pivotal dimensions of scientific process as knowledge, reason, argument, objectivity, evidence, fact, and truth. In studying the globalising role of medical objects, the contested premise of medical authority and legitimacy, and the syncretic transformations of metaphysical and ontological knowledge, contributors illuminate how the breadth of the historical study of Chinese medicine and its practices of knowledge-making in the modern period must be at once philosophical and transnational in scope.

Author : Ya Tu,Tingyu Fang
Publisher : PMPH-USA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9787117197847

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History and Philosophy of Chinese Medicine by Ya Tu,Tingyu Fang Pdf

In this book, we endeavor to introduce readers to the cultural background, origins and historical development of traditional Chinese medicine. We surveyed the most important events in its long history and the conditions that influenced its development, including the cultural and philosophical ideas and assumptions that led to the development of the particular methods and techniques of healing that characterize Chinese medicine. Our goal is not to give an exhaustive survey of the history and philosophy of Chinese medicine, but rather to convey the patterns of its development and allow readers to gain an understanding of the distinctive features of traditional Chinese medicine.

Author : Bridie Andrews
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780774824354

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

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. In the century that followed, pressure to reform traditional medicine in China came not only from this small clutch of Westerners, but from within the country itself, as governments set on modernization aligned themselves against the traditions of the past, and individuals saw in the Western system the potential for new wealth and power. 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.

Author : Miriam Solomon,Jeremy R. Simon,Harold Kincaid
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317519850

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The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine by Miriam Solomon,Jeremy R. Simon,Harold Kincaid Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Medicine is a comprehensive guide to topics in the fields of epistemology and metaphysics of medicine. It examines traditional topics such as the concept of disease, causality in medicine, the epistemology of the randomized controlled trial, the biopsychosocial model, explanation, clinical judgment and phenomenology of medicine and emerging topics, such as philosophy of epidemiology, measuring harms, the concept of disability, nursing perspectives, race and gender, the metaphysics of Chinese medicine, and narrative medicine. Each of the 48 chapters is written especially for this volume and with a student audience in mind. For pedagogy and clarity, each chapter contains an extended example illustrating the ideas discussed. This text is intended for use as a reference for students in courses in philosophy of medicine and philosophy of science, and pairs well with The Routledge Companion to Bioethics for use in medical humanities and social science courses.

Author : Matteo Vagelli
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783031615559

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Reconsidering Historical Epistemology by Matteo Vagelli Pdf

Author : Boying Ma
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 1320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-20
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789813238008

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History Of Medicine In Chinese Culture, A (In 2 Volumes) by Boying Ma Pdf

This book set covers the last 3000 years of Chinese Medicine, as a broadly flowing river, from its source to its mouth. It takes the story from the very beginnings in proto-scientific China to the modern age, with a wealth of historical and cultural detail. It is unique in presenting many anecdotes, sayings, and excerpts from the traditional classics.The content is organized into four parts. Part one focuses on the medical activities in Chinese primitive society and the characteristic features of the witchcraft stage of medicine. Part two traces the progress of Chinese medicine as it entered the stage of natural philosophy. It also discusses how other aspects of philosophy, religion, and politics influenced Chinese medical theory and practice at the time. Chinese medicine, having a kind of social existence, was also impacted by the natural and social environment, and multiple cultural factors. Some of these factors are discussed in Part three. The last part concludes by examining the cultural process of Chinese medicine in history and offers a glimpse into the future of Chinese Medicine.

Author : Lukas M. Verburgt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2024-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350326248

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Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science by Lukas M. Verburgt Pdf

Debating Contemporary Approaches to the History of Science explores the main themes, problems and challenges currently at the top of the discipline's methodological agenda. In its chapters, established and emerging scholars introduce and discuss new approaches to the history of science and revisit older perspectives which remain crucial. Each chapter is followed by a critical commentary from another scholar in the field and the author's response. The volume looks at such topics as the importance of the 'global', 'digital', 'environmental', and 'posthumanist' turns for the history of science, and the possibilities for the field of moving beyond a focus on ideas and texts towards active engagement with materials and practices. It also addresses important issues about the relationship between history of science, on the one hand, and philosophy of science, history of knowledge and ignorance studies, on the other. With its innovative format, this volume provides an up-to-date, authoritative overview of the field, and also explores how and why the history of science is practiced. It is essential reading for students and scholars eager to keep a finger on the pulse of what is happening in the history of science today, and to contribute to where it might go next.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1127 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004304642

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Modern Chinese Religion II: 1850 - 2015 (2 vols) by Anonim Pdf

This book examines the transformation of values in China since 1850, first in the “secular” realms of economics, science, medicine, aesthetics, media and gender, and then in each of the major religions (Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, Christianity) and in Marxist discourse.

Author : Emily Baum
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226558240

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The Invention of Madness by Emily Baum Pdf

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.” ​ Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.

Author : David Luesink,William H. Schneider,Zhang Daqing
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Medical policy
ISBN : 9781580469425

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China and the Globalization of Biomedicine by David Luesink,William H. Schneider,Zhang Daqing Pdf

Argues that developments in biomedicine in China should be at the center of our understanding of biomedicine, not at the periphery

Author : Vivienne Lo,Michael Stanley-Baker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 796 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2022-06-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135008970

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Routledge Handbook of Chinese Medicine by Vivienne Lo,Michael Stanley-Baker Pdf

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

Author : Howard Chiang
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004397620

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The Making of the Human Sciences in China by Howard Chiang Pdf

This volume provides a history of how “the human” has been constituted as a subject of scientific inquiry in China from the seventeenth century to the present.

Author : Elisabeth Hsu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781800735576

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Chinese Medicine in East Africa by Elisabeth Hsu Pdf

Based on fieldwork conducted between 2001-2008 in urban East Africa, this book explores who the patients, practitioners and paraprofessionals doing Chinese medicine were in this early period of renewed China-Africa relations. Rather than taking recourse to the ‘placebo effect’, the author explains through the spatialities and materialities of the medical procedures provided why - apart from purchasing the Chinese antimalarial called Artemisinin - locals would try out their ‘alternatively modern’ formulas for treating a wide range of post-colonial disorders and seek their sexual enhancement medicines.

Author : Daniel Asen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107126060

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Death in Beijing by Daniel Asen Pdf

An innovative exploration of China's modern transformation through the history of homicide investigation and forensic science in Republican Beijing. Daniel Asen examines the process through which imperial China's tradition of forensic science came to serve the needs of a changing state and society under dramatically new circumstances.

Author : Eric I. Karchmer
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780823299850

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Prescriptions for Virtuosity by Eric I. Karchmer Pdf

Although Chinese medicine is assumed to be a timeless healing tradition, the encounter with modern biomedicine threatened its very existence and led to many radical changes. Prescriptions for Virtuosity tells the story of how doctors of Chinese medicine have responded to the global dominance of biomedicine and developed new forms of virtuosity to keep their clinical practice relevant in contemporary Chinese society. Based on extensive ethnographic and historical research, the book documents the strategies of Chinese medicine doctors to navigate postcolonial power inequalities. Doctors have followed two seemingly contradictory courses of action. First, they have emphasized the unique “Chinese” characteristics of their practice, defining them against the perceived strengths of biomedicine, and producing an ontological divide between the two medical systems. These oppositions have inadvertently marginalized Chinese medicine, making it seem appropriate for clinical use only when biomedical solutions are lacking. Second, doctors have found points of convergence to facilitate the blending of the two medical practices, producing innovative solutions to difficult clinical problems. Prescriptions for Virtuosity examines how the postcolonial condition can generate not only domination but hybridity. Karchmer shows, for example, how the clinical methodology of “pattern discrimination and treatment determination” bianzheng lunzhi, which is today celebrated as the quintessential characteristic of Chinese medicine, is a twentieth-century invention. When subjected to the institutional standardizations of hospital practice, bianzheng lunzhi can lead to an impoverished form of medicine. But in the hands of a virtuoso physicians, it becomes a dynamic tool for moving between biomedicine and Chinese medicine to create innovative new therapies.