Judith Farquhar

Knowing Practice (eBook, PDF)

The Clinical Encounter Of Chinese Medicine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. It describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars, and demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429967993
• Artikelnr.: 56834047

Autorenporträt

Judith Farquhar is associate professor of anthropology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: "We Take Practice to Be Our Guide"
1 Chinese Medicine as Institutional Object and Historical Moment
2 Preliminary Orientations: Sources and Manifestations
Unity and Multiplicity
3 The Clinical Encounter Observed
4 Description and Analysis in Kanbing
5 The Syndrome-Therapy Pivot
6 Remanifesting the Syndrome and Qualifying the Therapy: Formulary and Materia Medica
7 Classification
Specificity
History
and Action: An Overview of the Clinical Encounter
Conclusion