Columbia University Press
Traditional Chinese Medicine: Heritage and Adaptation
Key Metrics
- Paul U Unschuld
- Columbia University Press
- Paperback
- 9780231175012
- 8.5 X 5.4 X 1 inches
- 0.55 pounds
- Medical > Alternative & Complementary Medicine
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
Unschuld reveals the emergence of a Chinese medical tradition built around a new understanding of the human being, considering beliefs in the influence of cosmology, numerology, and the supernatural on the health of the living. He describes the variety of therapeutic approaches in Chinese culture, the history of pharmacology and techniques such as acupuncture, and the global exchange of medical knowledge. Insights are offered into the twentieth-century decline of traditional medicine, as military defeats caused reformers and revolutionaries to import medical knowledge as part of the construction of a new China. Unschuld also recounts the reception of traditional Chinese medicine in the West since the 1970s, where it is often considered an alternative to Western medicine at the same time as China seeks to incorporate elements of its medical traditions into a scientific framework. This concise and compelling introduction to medical thought and history suggests that Chinese medicine is also a guide to Chinese civilization.
Author Bio
Paul U. Unschuld is the director of the Institute for the Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences, Charité-Universitaetsmedizin Berlin. His books include What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing (2009) and The Fall and Rise of China: Healing the Trauma of History (2013).
- Research Interests
- Comparative History of Chinese and European Medical History.
Comparative History of Chinese and Western Medical Ethics/Bioethics.
Public Health Issues associated with Heterogenous Health Care Systems in Contemporary Western and NonWestern Societies.
Source: icl.charite.de
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