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A Way of Life
- Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine
Engelsk Hardback
A Way of Life
- Things, Thought, and Action in Chinese Medicine
Engelsk Hardback

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A short, thoughtful introduction to traditional Chinese medicine that looks beyond the conventional boundaries of Western biomedical science Traditional Chinese medicine is often viewed as mystical or superstitious, with outcomes requiring naïve faith. Judith Farquhar, drawing on her hard-won knowledge of social, intellectual, and clinical spheres in today’s China, here offers a concise and nuanced treatment that addresses enduring and troublesome ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions. In this work, which is based on her 2017 Terry Lectures, “Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine,” she considers how the modern, rationalized, and scientific field of traditional Chinese medicine constructs its very real objects (bodies, symptoms, drugs), how experts think through and sort out pathology and health (yinyang, right qi / wrong qi, stasis, flow), and how contemporary doctors act responsibly to “seek out the root” of bodily disorder. Through this refined investigation, East-West contrasts collapse, and systematic Chinese medicine, no longer a mystery or a pseudo-science, can become a philosophical ally and a rich resource for a more capacious science.
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
184
ISBN-13:
9780300237238
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0300237235
Udg. Dato:
12 maj 2020
Længde:
19mm
Bredde:
146mm
Højde:
217mm
Forlag:
Yale University Press
Oplagsdato:
12 maj 2020
Forfatter(e):
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