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Classical Chinese medicine : theory, methodology and therapy in its philosophical framework /
This volume completes a trilogy (Lee, 2012, 2017) on the philosophy of medicine, Western and Chinese. Its immediate prequel (Lee, 2017) sets out in general outline the philosophical and methodological core of Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM); this volume fleshes out that ""skeleton"&q...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Chapter One; Background and Nature of the Book; Summary of chapters; Conclusion; Chapter Two; Introduction; History: a brief outline; Is the Jingluo network other than fictional?; Some methodological comments; CCM's own understanding of the Jingluo network and the relationship between effect and cause; Conclusion; Chapter Three; Introduction; Internal reasons; External reason: the spirit of Positivism; The context distinction; The context of generating the Wuxing hypothesis (CGH) and the context of testing it (CTH)
- AWT: throwing the baby out with the bath water?Conclusion; Chapter Four; Introduction; CCM, Wholism and Ecosystem Science/Science; Preventive Medicine (Primary Meaning) in the context of CCM as Ecosystem Thinking; Conclusion; Chapter Five; Introduction; The origin of Preventive Medicine in the narrow sense in Chinese thinking; Preventive Medicine: shang gong, zhong gong and xia gong; Preventive Medicine in CCM and Preventive Biomedicine in Biomedicine; Conclusion; Chapter Six; Introduction; Cartesian dualism and its aftermath for Western philosophy and its medicine; The Humean Legacy
- CCM: Mind-Body WholismBiomedicine and CCM: psychosomatic disorders/illnesses; The Placebo phenomenon: Biomedicine, Science and CCM; Conclusion; Chapter Seven; Introduction; CCM: Personalised Medicine/Getihua Medicine; Biomedicine: Precision Medicine/Personalized Medicine; Randomised Controlled Trials and Evidence-based Medicine; Personalized/Precision Medicine, Getihua Medicine and the Biomedical framework; Conclusion; Chapter Eight; Introduction; Biomedicine and CCM; Illnesses categorised in terms of Deficiency or Excess; Concept of Zhèng
- Qinghao, qinghaosu, fangzi and Biomedical pharmacologyBiomedicine and Getihua Medicine from the standpoint of Zhèng and Fang; Fang and food: food as medicinal; Assessing the cause-effect relationship; Conclusion; Chapter Nine; Introduction; Absurdity 1; Absurdity 2; Absurdity 3; Absurdity 4; Conclusion; Chapter Ten; Introduction; Tianren-xiangying, the Cyclic Ascending-Descending Law of Nature, Macro-Micro-cosmic Wholism and Yidaoyi; Axiomatic construction of CCM in terms of its Laws of Nature; The Person-body; Contextual-dyadic Thinking; Conclusion; Chapter Eleven; Introduction
- Integration as assimilationThe Chinese project of IM; The TCM project at the level of drug use; Exploring the incoherence of Lake's account of IM; A respectful partnership; Conclusion; Chapter Twelve; Summary in ten points; Appendix One; Introduction; The textual approach; The non-textual approach; Conclusion; Appendix Two; Life; The fate of his work following his death; Conclusion; Appendix Three; What is this fallacy?; CCM as (Han) body politics writ large; Conclusion; Appendix Four; Why Bian Que is controversial; Some biographical details; Bian Que and Sima Qian