What is medicine? : Western and Eastern approaches to healing
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- ISBN: 9780520257658
- ISBN: 0520257650
- ISBN: 9780520257665
- ISBN: 0520257669
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xiv, 236 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2009.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Life = Body Plus X -- 2. Medicine, or Novelty Appeal -- 3. Why Laws of Nature? -- 4. Longing for Order -- 5. Ethics and Legality -- 6. Why Here? Why Now? -- 7. Thales' Trite Observation -- 8. Polis, Law, and Self-determination -- 9. Individual and the Whole -- 10. Nonmedical Healing -- 11. Mawangdui: Early Healing in China -- 12. Humans Are Biologically Identical across Cultures. So Why Not Medicine? -- 13. Yellow Thearch's Body Image -- 14. Birth of Chinese Medicine -- 15. Division of the Elite -- 16. View to the Visible, and Opinions on the Invisible -- 17. State Concept and Body Image -- 18. Farewell to Demons and Spirits -- 19. New Pathogens, and Morality -- 20. Medicine without Pharmaceutics -- 21. Pharmaceutics without Medicine -- 22. Puzzling Parallels -- 23. Beginning of Medicine in Greece -- 24. End of Monarchy -- 25. Troublemakers and Ostracism -- 26. I See Something You Don't See -- 27. Powers of Self-healing: Self-evident? -- 28. Confucians' Fear of Chaos -- 29. Medicine: Expression of the General State of Mind -- 30. Dynamic Ideas and Faded Model Images -- 31. Hour of the Dissectors -- 32. Manifold Experiences of the World -- 33. Greek Medicine and Roman Incomprehension -- 34. Illness as Stasis -- 35. Head and Limbs -- 36. Rediscovery of Wholeness -- 37. To Move the Body to a Statement -- 38. Galen of Pergamon: Collector in All Worlds -- 39. Europe's Ancient Pharmacology -- 40. Wheel of Progress Turns No More -- 41. Constancy and Discontinuity of Structures -- 42. Arabian Interlude -- 43. Tang Era: Cultural Diversity, Conceptual Vacuum -- 44. Changes in the Song Era -- 45. Authority of Distant Antiquity -- 46. Zhang Ji's Belated Honors -- 47. Chinese Pharmacology -- 48. Diagnosis Game -- 49. Physician as the Pharmacist's Employee -- 50. Relighting the Torch of European Antiquity -- 51. Primacy of the Practical -- 52. Variety of Therapeutics -- 53. Which Model Image for a New Medicine? -- 54. Real Heritage of Antiquity -- 55. Galenism as Trade in Antiques -- 56. Integration and Reductionism in the Song Dynasty -- 57. New Freedom to Expand Knowledge -- 58. Healing the State, Healing the Organism -- 59. Trapped in the Cage of Tradition -- 60. Xu Dachun, Giovanni Morgagni, and Intra-abdominal Abscesses -- 61. Acupuncturists, Barbers, and Masseurs -- 62. No Scientific Revolution in Medicine -- 63. Discovery of New Worlds -- 64. Paracelsus: A Tumultuous Mind with an Overview -- 65. Durable and Fragile Cage Bars -- 66. Most Beautiful Antiques and the Most Modern Images in One Room -- 67. Harvey and the Magna Carta -- 68. Cartesian Case for Circulation -- 69. Long Live the Periphery! -- 70. Out of the Waiting Shelter, into the Jail Cell -- 71. Sensations That Pull into the Lower Parts of the Body -- 72. Homeopathy Is Not Medicine -- 73. "God with Us" on the Belt Buckle -- 74. Medicine Independent of Theology -- 75. Virchow: The Man of Death as the Interpreter of Life -- 76. Robert Koch: Pure Science? -- 77. Wash Your Hands, Keep the Germs Away -- 78. AIDS: The Disease That Fits -- 79. China in the Nineteenth Century: A New Cage Opens Up -- 80. Two Basic Ideas of Medicine -- 81. Value-free Biology and Cultural Interpretation -- 82. Transit Visa and a Promise -- 83. Scorn, Mockery, and Invectives for Chinese Medicine -- 84. Traditional Medicine in the PRC: Faith in Science -- 85. Arabs of the Twentieth Century, or Crowding in the Playpen -- 86. When the Light Comes from Behind -- 87. In the Beginning Was the Word -- 88. Out of Touch with Nature -- 89. Theology without Theos -- 90. Everything Will Be Fine -- 91. Left Alone in the Computer Tomograph -- 92. Healing and the Energy Crisis -- 93. TCM: Western Fears, Chinese Set Pieces -- 94. Harmony, Not War -- 95. Loss of the Center -- 96. Contented Customers in a Supermarket of Possibilities -- 97. More Things Change -- 98. One World, or Tinkering with Building Blocks -- 99. Vision of Unity over All Diversity. |
Language Note: | Translated from the German. |
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245 | 1 | 0. | ‡aWhat is medicine? : ‡bWestern and Eastern approaches to healing / ‡cPaul U. Unschuld ; translated from the German by Karen Reimers. |
260 | . | ‡aBerkeley : ‡bUniversity of California Press, ‡c©2009. | |
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520 | 8 | . | ‡aA comparative history, this book looks at the different ways & contexts in which European and Chinese medicine have developed, arguing that each has been and remains as legitimate a path to follow as the other. |
505 | 0 | 0. | ‡g1. ‡tLife = Body Plus X -- ‡g2. ‡tMedicine, or Novelty Appeal -- ‡g3. ‡tWhy Laws of Nature? -- ‡g4. ‡tLonging for Order -- ‡g5. ‡tEthics and Legality -- ‡g6. ‡tWhy Here? Why Now? -- ‡g7. ‡tThales' Trite Observation -- ‡g8. ‡tPolis, Law, and Self-determination -- ‡g9. ‡tIndividual and the Whole -- ‡g10. ‡tNonmedical Healing -- ‡g11. ‡tMawangdui: Early Healing in China -- ‡g12. ‡tHumans Are Biologically Identical across Cultures. So Why Not Medicine? -- ‡g13. ‡tYellow Thearch's Body Image -- ‡g14. ‡tBirth of Chinese Medicine -- ‡g15. ‡tDivision of the Elite -- ‡g16. ‡tView to the Visible, and Opinions on the Invisible -- ‡g17. ‡tState Concept and Body Image -- ‡g18. ‡tFarewell to Demons and Spirits -- ‡g19. ‡tNew Pathogens, and Morality -- ‡g20. ‡tMedicine without Pharmaceutics -- ‡g21. ‡tPharmaceutics without Medicine -- ‡g22. ‡tPuzzling Parallels -- ‡g23. ‡tBeginning of Medicine in Greece -- ‡g24. ‡tEnd of Monarchy -- ‡g25. ‡tTroublemakers and Ostracism -- ‡g26. ‡tI See Something You Don't See -- ‡g27. ‡tPowers of Self-healing: Self-evident? -- ‡g28. ‡tConfucians' Fear of Chaos -- ‡g29. ‡tMedicine: Expression of the General State of Mind -- ‡g30. ‡tDynamic Ideas and Faded Model Images -- ‡g31. ‡tHour of the Dissectors -- ‡g32. ‡tManifold Experiences of the World -- ‡g33. ‡tGreek Medicine and Roman Incomprehension -- ‡g34. ‡tIllness as Stasis -- ‡g35. ‡tHead and Limbs -- ‡g36. ‡tRediscovery of Wholeness -- ‡g37. ‡tTo Move the Body to a Statement -- ‡g38. ‡tGalen of Pergamon: Collector in All Worlds -- ‡g39. ‡tEurope's Ancient Pharmacology -- ‡g40. ‡tWheel of Progress Turns No More -- ‡g41. ‡tConstancy and Discontinuity of Structures -- ‡g42. ‡tArabian Interlude -- ‡g43. ‡tTang Era: Cultural Diversity, Conceptual Vacuum -- ‡g44. ‡tChanges in the Song Era -- ‡g45. ‡tAuthority of Distant Antiquity -- ‡g46. ‡tZhang Ji's Belated Honors -- ‡g47. ‡tChinese Pharmacology -- ‡g48. ‡tDiagnosis Game -- ‡g49. ‡tPhysician as the Pharmacist's Employee -- ‡g50. ‡tRelighting the Torch of European Antiquity -- ‡g51. ‡tPrimacy of the Practical -- ‡g52. ‡tVariety of Therapeutics -- ‡g53. ‡tWhich Model Image for a New Medicine? -- ‡g54. ‡tReal Heritage of Antiquity -- ‡g55. ‡tGalenism as Trade in Antiques -- ‡g56. ‡tIntegration and Reductionism in the Song Dynasty -- ‡g57. ‡tNew Freedom to Expand Knowledge -- ‡g58. ‡tHealing the State, Healing the Organism -- ‡g59. ‡tTrapped in the Cage of Tradition -- ‡g60. ‡tXu Dachun, Giovanni Morgagni, and Intra-abdominal Abscesses -- ‡g61. ‡tAcupuncturists, Barbers, and Masseurs -- ‡g62. ‡tNo Scientific Revolution in Medicine -- ‡g63. ‡tDiscovery of New Worlds -- ‡g64. ‡tParacelsus: A Tumultuous Mind with an Overview -- ‡g65. ‡tDurable and Fragile Cage Bars -- ‡g66. ‡tMost Beautiful Antiques and the Most Modern Images in One Room -- ‡g67. ‡tHarvey and the Magna Carta -- ‡g68. ‡tCartesian Case for Circulation -- ‡g69. ‡tLong Live the Periphery! -- ‡g70. ‡tOut of the Waiting Shelter, into the Jail Cell -- ‡g71. ‡tSensations That Pull into the Lower Parts of the Body -- ‡g72. ‡tHomeopathy Is Not Medicine -- ‡g73. ‡t"God with Us" on the Belt Buckle -- ‡g74. ‡tMedicine Independent of Theology -- ‡g75. ‡tVirchow: The Man of Death as the Interpreter of Life -- ‡g76. ‡tRobert Koch: Pure Science? -- ‡g77. ‡tWash Your Hands, Keep the Germs Away -- ‡g78. ‡tAIDS: The Disease That Fits -- ‡g79. ‡tChina in the Nineteenth Century: A New Cage Opens Up -- ‡g80. ‡tTwo Basic Ideas of Medicine -- ‡g81. ‡tValue-free Biology and Cultural Interpretation -- ‡g82. ‡tTransit Visa and a Promise -- ‡g83. ‡tScorn, Mockery, and Invectives for Chinese Medicine -- ‡g84. ‡tTraditional Medicine in the PRC: Faith in Science -- ‡g85. ‡tArabs of the Twentieth Century, or Crowding in the Playpen -- ‡g86. ‡tWhen the Light Comes from Behind -- ‡g87. ‡tIn the Beginning Was the Word -- ‡g88. ‡tOut of Touch with Nature -- ‡g89. ‡tTheology without Theos -- ‡g90. ‡tEverything Will Be Fine -- ‡g91. ‡tLeft Alone in the Computer Tomograph -- ‡g92. ‡tHealing and the Energy Crisis -- ‡g93. ‡tTCM: Western Fears, Chinese Set Pieces -- ‡g94. ‡tHarmony, Not War -- ‡g95. ‡tLoss of the Center -- ‡g96. ‡tContented Customers in a Supermarket of Possibilities -- ‡g97. ‡tMore Things Change -- ‡g98. ‡tOne World, or Tinkering with Building Blocks -- ‡g99. ‡tVision of Unity over All Diversity. |
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