Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine
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Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine
（Studies in the ethnographic imagination）
Westview Press, c1994
- : pbk
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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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