Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine
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Bibliographic Information
Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine
(Studies in the ethnographic imagination)
Westview Press, c1994
- : pbk
Available at 11 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 245-252
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780813330167
Description
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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: "We Take Practice to Be Our Guide" -- Chinese Medicine as Institutional Object and Historical Moment -- Preliminary Orientations -- The Clinical Encounter Observed -- Description and Analysis in Kanbing -- The Syndrome-Therapy Pivot -- Remanifesting the Syndrome and Qualifying the Therapy -- Classification, Specificity, History, and Action -- Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Chinese and Pharmaceutical Names of Drugs Used in Cases 1-3 -- Glossary of Chinese Terms -- About the Book and Author
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ISBN 9780813385334
Description
An examination of the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - "we take practice to be our guide"
- Chinese medicine as institutional object and historical moment
- preliminary orientations - sources and manifestations, unity and multiplicity
- the clinical encounter observed
- description and analysis in "Kanbing"
- the syndrome-therapy pivot
- remanifesting the syndrome and qualifying
- classification, specificity, history and action - an overview of the clinical encounter.
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