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What Is Medicine?: Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing

2009 The Regents of the University of California ;ISBN: 9780520257658 ;ISBN: 0520257650 ;ISBN: 9780520257665 ;ISBN: 0520257669 ;EISBN: 9780520944701 ;EISBN: 0520944704 ;DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520257658.001.0001 ;OCLC: 870245548 ;LCCallNum: R723.U56 2009

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  • Title:
    What Is Medicine?: Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing
  • Author: Unschuld, Paul U
  • Subjects: Anthropology ; Comparative analysis ; Cross-Cultural Comparison ; Healing ; Historical analysis ; History ; History of medicine ; Medicine ; Medicine, East Asian Traditional ; Medicine, Oriental ; Medicine, Oriental-Philosophy-History ; Medicine-Philosophy-History ; Philosophy ; Philosophy, Medical
  • Description: What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healingis the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine from their beginnings in the centuries BCE through present advances in sciences like molecular biology and in Western adaptations of traditional Chinese medicine. In his revolutionary interpretation of the basic forces that undergird shifts in medical theory, Paul U. Unschuld relates the history of medicine in both Europe and China to changes in politics, economics, and other contextual factors. Drawing on his own extended research of Chinese primary sources as well as his and others' scholarship in European medical history, Unschuld argues against any claims of "truth" in former and current, Eastern and Western models of physiology and pathology.What Is Medicine?makes an eloquent and timely contribution to discussions on health care policies while illuminating the nature of cognitive dynamics in medicine, and it stimulates fresh debate on the essence and interpretation of reality in medicine's attempts to manage the human organism.
  • Publisher: Berkeley: University of California Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 256
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 9780520257658
    ISBN: 0520257650
    ISBN: 9780520257665
    ISBN: 0520257669
    EISBN: 9780520944701
    EISBN: 0520944704
    DOI: 10.1525/california/9780520257658.001.0001
    OCLC: 870245548
    LCCallNum: R723.U56 2009
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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