Prescriptions For Virtuosity

Author : Eric I. Karchmer
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 51,5 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.

Author : Eric I. Karchmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0823299848

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Author : Paula Bruno
Publisher : Singing Dragon
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-21
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781839974991

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Chinese Medicine and the Management of Hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome by Paula Bruno Pdf

Hypermobility syndromes are more common, complex and varied than most practitioners realise. Every hypermobile patient is unique, and therefore challenging to treat using a pre-set paradigm or protocol. The hEDS population can be underserved by Western medicine and there is much that Chinese medicine can do for this community. This book is one of the first of its kind - a Chinese Medicine text focusing specifically on hypermobile Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome. Presenting existing bio-medical narratives before providing an in-depth exploration of the Chinese Medicine paradigms, this guide gives an overview of comprehensive treatment scenarios and addresses issues faced by EDS patients including pain management, psycho-emotional challenges, disruption of gut health, and chronic inflammation, including post-Lyme syndrome.

Author : Charles Leslie,Charles M. Leslie,Allan Young
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1992-06-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0520073185

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Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge by Charles Leslie,Charles M. Leslie,Allan Young Pdf

"From the perspectives of history and cultural anthropology, the authors consider problems of knowledge in Chinese medicine, the Hindu-Buddhist traditions of South Asian medicine, and the Greco-Arabic traditions of Islamic medicine.".

Author : Volker Scheid
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105124077053

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Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006 by Volker Scheid Pdf

During the 1950s and 1960s, the heirs of Menghe medicine were key players in creating the institutional framework for contemporary Chinese medicine. Their students are now practicing all over the world, shaping Chinese medicine in Los Angeles, New York, Oxford, Mallorca, and Berlin. The history of the Menghe current is relevant to anyone interested in the development of Chinese medicine in late imperial and modern China. This book traces Chinese medical history along the currents created by generations of physicians linked to each other by a shared heritage of learning, by descent and kinship, by sentiments of native place as well as nationalist fervor, by personal rivalries and economic competition, by the struggle for the survival of tradition and glorious visions of a new global medicine. On the level of both theory and practice, this history marks a departure from the focus on texts and ideas that has dominated Western engagement with Chinese medicine to date. Its goal is to locate medicine within the concrete lives of physicians and their patients, restoring an agency to their actions that easily gets lost in our search for the forces or structures that shape historical process. To this end, the author interweaves social history and medical case studies, ethnography and biography to narrate a story of Chinese medicine that is very different from any that has been told before.

Author : Gavin Steingo,Jim Sykes
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2019-03-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781478002192

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Remapping Sound Studies by Gavin Steingo,Jim Sykes Pdf

The contributors to Remapping Sound Studies intervene in current trends and practices in sound studies by reorienting the field toward the global South. Attending to disparate aspects of sound in Africa, South and Southeast Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, Micronesia, and a Southern outpost in the global North, this volume broadens the scope of sound studies and challenges some of the field's central presuppositions. The contributors show how approaches to and uses of technology across the global South complicate narratives of technological modernity and how sound-making and listening in diverse global settings unsettle familiar binaries of sacred/secular, private/public, human/nonhuman, male/female, and nature/culture. Exploring a wide range of sonic phenomena and practices, from birdsong in the Marshall Islands to Zulu ululation, the contributors offer diverse ways to remap and decolonize modes of thinking about and listening to sound. Contributors Tripta Chandola, Michele Friedner, Louise Meintjes, Jairo Moreno, Ana María Ochoa Gautier, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Jeff Roy, Jessica Schwartz, Shayna Silverstein, Gavin Steingo, Jim Sykes, Benjamin Tausig, Hervé Tchumkam

Author : Shannon Jackson
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-06-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780810144866

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Back Stages by Shannon Jackson Pdf

Shannon Jackson explores a range of disciplinary, institutional, and political puzzles that engage the social and aesthetic practice of performance in this collection of twenty essential essays spanning her career. Back Stages starts by considering the historical connection between performance practice and movements of social reform, while later writings analyze disciplinary debates on the place of performance in higher education and within the contemporary field of socially engaged art, tracking fraught and allied relationships to literary studies, art history, visual culture, theater, social theory, and critical theory. At a time of increased aesthetic experimentation and political debate within the art world, these essays alight on artists, groups, and cultural organizations whose experiments have challenged conventions of curation and critique, including Theaster Gates, Paul Ramírez Jonas, Harrell Fletcher, and My Barbarian. Throughout, Jackson navigates the political ambivalences of performance, from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century, tracking shifts in participatory art that seek to resist capitalism, even as such performance work paradoxically risks neoliberal appropriation by a post-Fordist experience economy. Back Stages surfaces unexpected cross-disciplinary connections and provides new opportunities for mutual engagement within a wide network of educational, artistic, and civic sectors. A substantial introduction excavates the critical links between the essays and a variety of disciplines and movements.

Author : Samuel V. Holroyd,Richard L. Wynn,Barbara Requa-Clark
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 620 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Dental pharmacology
ISBN : UOM:39015009900278

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Clinical Pharmacology in Dental Practice by Samuel V. Holroyd,Richard L. Wynn,Barbara Requa-Clark Pdf

L. Wynn, BS, MS, PhD and Barbara Requa-Clark, PharmD; with 16 contributors

Author : He Bian
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691200132

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Know Your Remedies by He Bian Pdf

"Traditional Chinese medicine has been practiced in various forms for more than a thousand years. Practitioners may heal patients with herbal remedies, acupuncture, massage, exercise, and modified diets. Even today, herbal medicines are of particular importance; Chinese pharmacies containing a vast array of remedies can be found in cities and towns the world over. This book is an interdisciplinary and cultural history of the concept of "pharmacy," both the drugs themselves and the trade in medicine, during the Ming and Qing dynasties of early modern China. This was a time of change for traditional Chinese medicine and for Chinese science as a whole. Many historians have argued that sixteenth-century China was a high point of scientific inquiry, followed by a period of intellectual decline. Though political and intellectual shifts led to a crisis of authority over pharmaceutical knowledge in the sixteenth through eighteenth centuries, Bian argues that this period of supposed intellectual decline was in fact characterized by numerous efforts to further refine and spread the pharmacological knowledge amassed in the Ming dynasty. She draws on a wide range of primary sources, but particularly through the study of bencao (pronounced "pen ts'ao"), a genre of encyclopaedic works, often called matteria medica or pharmacopoeia in the West, that collect information on medicinal substances. As the early modern Chinese Empire expanded and print culture became more widespread, the pursuit of medical remedies became a significant commercial enterprise. The author connects theory and practice of pharmacy during the Ming and Qing dynasties to broader developments in intellectual history, book culture, commerce, and taxation"--

Author : John S. Akin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Communication in the social sciences
ISBN : UOM:39015041363899

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Communication of Economic Research to Makers of Educational Policy by John S. Akin Pdf

Author : Andrew Schonebaum
Publisher : University of Washington Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780295806327

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Novel Medicine by Andrew Schonebaum Pdf

By examining the dynamic interplay between discourses of fiction and medicine, Novel Medicine demonstrates how fiction incorporated, created, and disseminated medical knowledge in China, beginning in the sixteenth century. Critical readings of fictional and medical texts provide a counterpoint to prevailing narratives that focus only on the “literati” aspects of the novel, showing that these texts were not merely read, but were used by a wide variety of readers for a range of purposes. The intersection of knowledge—fictional and real, elite and vernacular—illuminates the history of reading and daily life and challenges us to rethink the nature of Chinese literature.

Author : Patricia Wittberg
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994-10-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438424316

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The Rise and Fall of Catholic Religious Orders by Patricia Wittberg Pdf

Author : Waltraud Ernst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134736010

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Plural Medicine, Tradition and Modernity, 1800-2000 by Waltraud Ernst Pdf

Research into 'colonial' or 'imperial' medicine has made considerable progress in recent years, whilst the study of what is usually referred to as 'indigenous' or 'folk' medicine in colonized societies has received much less attention. This book redresses the balance by bringing together current critical research into medical pluralism during the last two centuries. It includes a rich selection of historical, anthropological and sociological case-studies that cover many different parts of the globe, ranging from New Zealand to Africa, China, South Asia, Europe and the USA.

Author : Rachel Falconer Denis Renevey
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2014-12-22
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9783823368205

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Medieval and Early Modern Literature, Science and Medicine by Rachel Falconer Denis Renevey Pdf

This inter-disciplinary volume explores the poetics of medicine and science, and the scientific aspects of literary and devotional works in a wide-ranging selection of texts from the medieval and early modern periods. Areas of knowedge which we now regard as occupying separate and specialist spheres, were freely and fluidly hybridized in medieval and early modern times

Author : David J. Chalcraft
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317491385

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Sectarianism in Early Judaism by David J. Chalcraft Pdf

'Sectarianism in Early Judaism' applies recent developments in sociological analysis to sect formation and development in early Judaism. The essays examine sectarianism in a wide range of different forms: the many layers of redaction in religious texts; the development arcs of sectarian groups; the role of sectarianism across Jewish history as well as in the time of the Second Temple; and the relations within and between sects and between sects and wider society. The book aims to establish a conceptual framework for the analysis of sects and, in doing so, makes particular use of the work of Max Weber and Bryan Wilson, exploring the limits of their typologies and sociological theories.