Western Medicine For Chinese

Author : Faith C. S. Ho
Publisher : Hong Kong University Press
ISBN 13 : 9888390945
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Medicine for Chinese written by Faith C. S. Ho and published by Hong Kong University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The founders of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese (HKCM) had the lofty vision of helping to bring Western science and medicine to China, which, they hoped, would contribute to the larger objective of modernizing the nation. That this latter goal was partly realized through the non-medical efforts of its first and most famous graduate, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, is a well-known story. Faith C. S. Ho’s Western Medicine for Chinese brings the focus back to the primary mission of HKCM by analyzing its role in the transfer of medical knowledge and practices across cultures. It offers a detailed account of how the pioneering staff of the college and the fifty-nine graduates besides Dr. Sun overcame significant obstacles to enable Western medicine to gain wider acceptance among Chinese and to facilitate the establishment of such services by the Hong Kong government. Some of these Chinese doctors went on to practise medicine in China, but arguably the college had made the most lasting impact on Hong Kong. Ho observes that the timing of the founding (1887) and the closing (1915) of the college could not have been more strategic. The late nineteenth-century beginning allowed enough time for HKCM to lay a solid foundation for medical training in the city. Later, the college was ready to play a pivotal role in the establishment of the University of Hong Kong, which had important implications for subsequent social developments in the city. ‘Faith Ho’s concise yet comprehensive study of the Hong Kong College of Medicine examines the people and personalities who created and sustained this remarkable institution. It is as much about medicine as it is about colonialism and Hong Kong itself.’ —John M. Carroll, University of Hong Kong ‘This is a meticulously researched and comprehensive account of the history of the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese. Those seeking information of Western medicine in the early years of Hong Kong need look no further for surely there is no better document than this.’ —Sir David Todd, Founding President, Hong Kong Academy of Medicine ‘It is a valuable history of one of Hong Kong’s most important educational institutions. It provides also a commentary on the cultural exchange between Western values and methods and those of the Chinese in that fundamental area of human concern—medicine.’ —W. John Morgan, University of Nottingham and Cardiff University

Author : Thomas Avery Garran
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1594777411
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Western Herbs according to Traditional Chinese Medicine written by Thomas Avery Garran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-01-22 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book to exclusively use Chinese medical theories and terminology to guide practitioners of Chinese medicine in the use of Western herbs • Written entirely according to the theory, diagnosis, and treatment paradigm of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) • Explains how to combine and modify the standard TCM formulas to non-Chinese herbs suitable for Western practitioners • Includes 58 monographs of common Western healing herbs, detailing how each plant is used clinically The ever-growing number of Chinese medicine practitioners in the West has brought about an amalgamation of many styles of Chinese medicine and various other forms of medicine from around the world. This book addresses the increasing demand for knowledge of how to integrate plants from outside the standard Chinese materia medica into the fold of Chinese medical practices in the West. It is the first in-depth guide to using Western herbs exclusively according to the theories, diagnoses, and treatments of traditional Chinese medicine that harmonizes the unique terminology and theories of TCM with other botanical medicines. The book contains 58 monographs, illustrated with full-color photographs, of herbs commonly used by Western herbalists. Each herb is grouped by the basic categorization for medicinals in Chinese medicine, such as Herbs that Resolve the Exterior and Herbs that Regulate Blood. The monographs detail the energetics, function and indication, channels entered, dosage and preparation, and contraindications of each plant. The author also explains how to use the herbs to modify standard formulas used in everyday Chinese herbal medicine, based on his own clinical experience. An appendix of Western Analogs for Chinese Herbs further highlights 40 Chinese medicinals that have related species growing in the West.

Author : Bridie Andrews
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774824344
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 written by Bridie Andrews and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medical care in nineteenth-century China was spectacularly pluralistic: herbalists, shamans, bone-setters, midwives, priests, and a few medical missionaries from the West all competed for patients. This book examines the dichotomy between "Western" and "Chinese" medicine, showing how it has been greatly exaggerated. As missionaries went to lengths to make their medicine more acceptable to Chinese patients, modernizers of Chinese medicine worked to become more "scientific" by eradicating superstition and creating modern institutions. Andrews challenges the supposed superiority of Western medicine in China while showing how "traditional" Chinese medicine was deliberately created in the image of a modern scientific practice.

Author : Bob Flaws
Publisher : Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781891845208
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treatment of Modern Western Medical Diseases with Chinese Medicine written by Bob Flaws and published by Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.. This book was released on 2001 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a textbook and clinical manual on the treatment of modern Western medical diseases with Chinese medicine. By modern Western medical diseases, we mean all the disease categories of Western medicine excluding gynecology and pediatrics. By Chinese medicine, we mean standard contemporary professional Chinese medicine as taught at the two dozen provincial Chinese medical colleges in the People's Respublic of China. The two main therapeutic modalities used in the practice of this style of Chinese medicine are acupuncture-moxibustion and the internal administration of multi-ingredient Chinese medicinal formulas. Treatment plans for each disease discussed herein are given for each of these two main modalities.

Author : Xiaoping Fang
Publisher : Rochester Studies in Medical H
ISBN 13 : 9781580464338
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barefoot Doctors and Western Medicine in China written by Xiaoping Fang and published by Rochester Studies in Medical H. This book was released on 2012 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first study in English that examines barefoot doctors in China from the perspective of the social history of medicine.

Author : Boli Zhang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9811228078
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Diagnosis And Treatment Of Covid-19 With Integrated Chinese And Western Medicine written by Boli Zhang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2023-07-19 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This handbook mainly introduces the diagnosis and treatment methods of COVID-19 in traditional Chinese and Western medicine. In particular, principles for clinical treatments, therapeutic methods and prognostic rehabilitation interventions for the four types of clinical manifestations are elaborated. A chapter detailing guidance for healthy individuals on scientific prevention measures is also included, making this book suitable for not only frontline COVID-19 personnel and TCM enthusiasts, but also the general public.

Author : Shigehisa Kuriyama
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0942299930
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine written by Shigehisa Kuriyama and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illuminating account of how early medicine in Greece and China perceived the human body Winner of the William H. Welch Medal, American Association for the History of Medicine The true structure and workings of the human body are, we casually assume, everywhere the same, a universal reality. But when we look into the past, our sense of reality wavers: accounts of the body in diverse medical traditions often seem to describe mutually alien, almost unrelated worlds. How can perceptions of something as basic and intimate as the body differ so? In this book, Shigehisa Kuriyama explores this fundamental question, elucidating the fascinating contrasts between the human body described in classical Greek medicine and the body as envisaged by physicians in ancient China. Revealing how perceptions of the body and conceptions of personhood are intimately linked, his comparative inquiry invites us, indeed compels us, to reassess our own habits of feeling and perceiving.

Author : Bob Flaws
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781891845574
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Treatment of Modern Western Diseases with Chinese Medicine written by Bob Flaws and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Since the initial publication of this book, the most complete clinical manual on the Chinese medical treatment of modern Western diseases, it has become far and away the best selling title that we publish. Now this new second edition has been expanded, updated, and improved. The new edition covers 79 common Western diseases, seven more than the previous book. For each disease the book covers both acupuncture and Chinese medicine protocols for treatment as well as a comprehensive review of Western medicine. In addition, all the herb listings have been reformatted as easy-to-read lists instead of paragraphs. The herbs are now listed with pin-yin first and Latin nomenclature second. Finally, all herbal listings have been updated to correspond to changes in the latest edition of Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica by Bensky, Clavey, and Stoger. New diseases covered: Stills Disease Ankylosing Spondylitis Fanconis Syndrome Dengue Fever Costochondritis Psoriatic Arthritis Rombergs Syndrome" -Publisher.

Author : Yan Liu
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 0295749016
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Healing with Poisons written by Yan Liu and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2021-06-22 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Open access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295749013 At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically employed as healing agents to cure everything from abdominal pain to epidemic disease. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious figures, court officials, and laypersons used toxic substances to both relieve acute illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du—a word carrying a core meaning of “potency”—led practitioners to devise a variety of methods to transform dangerous poisons into effective medicines. Recounting scandals and controversies involving poisons from the Era of Division to the Tang, historian Yan Liu considers how the concept of du was central to how the people of medieval China perceived both their bodies and the body politic. He also examines the wide range of toxic minerals, plants, and animal products used in classical Chinese pharmacy, including everything from the herb aconite to the popular recreational drug Five-Stone Powder. By recovering alternative modes of understanding wellness and the body’s interaction with foreign substances, this study cautions against arbitrary classifications and exemplifies the importance of paying attention to the technical, political, and cultural conditions in which substances become truly meaningful. Healing with Poisons is freely available in an open access edition thanks to TOME (Toward an Open Monograph Ecosystem) and the generous support of the University of Buffalo.

Author : Emily S. Wu
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739173677
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States written by Emily S. Wu and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-06-06 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) originated from the traditional medical system in the Chinese civilization, with influences from the Daoist and Chinese folk traditions in bodily cultivation and longevity techniques. In the past few decades, TCM has become one of the leading alternative medical systems in the United States. This book demonstrates the fluidity of a medical ideological system with a rich history of methodological development and internal theoretical conflicts, continuing to transform in our postmodern world where people and ideas transcend geographic, ethnic, and linguistic limitations. The unique historical trajectories and cultural dynamics of the American society are crticial nutrients for the localization of TCM, while the constant traffic of travelers and immigrants foster the globalizing tendency of TCM. The practitioners in this book represent an incredible range of clinical applications, personal styles, theoretical rationalizations, and business models. What really unifies all these practitioners is not their specific practices but the goal of these practices. The shared goal is to strive for health, not just health in terms of the lack of illness but the ultimate health of achieving perfect balance in every aspect of the being of a person—physically, mentally, spiritually, and energetically.