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Chinese Medicine is an outstanding scientific proposition system with its own structural, methodological and theoretical prerequisites flowing into the specific practices that make Chinese Medicine popular in the Western world. However, we should be aware of the fact that Chinese Medicine is challenged in its existence because it is widely unknown. Fostering the understanding of Chinese Medicine in various aspects is, hence, the main aim of this book that gives interesting insights into the discussions on current developments in Chinese Medicine research.
List of contents
Contents: Vincent Shen: Dao, Qi, and Body/Mind-Huanglao Daoist Methodology of Nurturing Life - Lan Fengli: Globalization of TCM: Cultural Differences between TCM and Western Medicine - Gertrude Kubiena: Applied Methodologies for Teaching, Learning, Spreading and Survival of TCM - Lan Fengli: Metaphor, Qu Xiang Bi Lei and Chinese Medicine - Pan Gijuan: Discussion of the Basic Categories in the TCM Theoretical System - Ma Xiaotong: TCM Essential Conception and Methods of the Theory - Fritz G. Wallner/Lan Fengli: Ontological Ambiguity and Methodological Circularity: Qu Xiang Bi Lei - Sophie Chung: Structural Parallelisms in Psychoanalysis and Traditional Chinese Medicine and Their Struggle for Scientific Acknowledgement in the Western World.
About the author
The Editors: Friedrich G. Wallner is professor for the philosophy of science. His research is focused on intercultural philosophy of science, especially on the comparison of Chinese and Western medicine.
Fengli Lan is professor at the Foreign Language Teaching Center at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine.
Martin J. Jandl is philosopher and psychologist working on various subjects, like the philosophy of language, the philosophy of knowledge, and praxeological function ontology.
