| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Origins and characteristics of Chinese medicine -- The lack of existential autonomy -- The longing for existential autonomy -- Quotations from the medical classics -- The banality of violence -- The Mawangdui texts -- Anatomy, physiology, and pathology in the new medicine -- Deficiencies in the credibility of the new medicine -- The alternative model : the view from illness -- Radical healing : life as a form of disease -- Between antiquity and the modern age -- Two medical authors of the Ming and Qing dynasties : Wan Quan and Xu Dachun -- The confrontation with the western way of life -- The persuasiveness of Chinese medicine -- The opinions of intellectuals and politicians -- The selection -- The surprise -- The creative reception of Chinese medicine in the west -- The objectification of the discussion : opportunity and challenge. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Medicine, Chinese.
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Medicine, Chinese. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Title |
Traditionelle Chinesische Medizin. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2017183954
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- Traditional Chinese medicine. New York : Columbia University Press, [2018] 9780231175005 (DLC) 2017021548 |
| ISBN |
9780231546263 (electronic book) |
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0231546262 (electronic book) |
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9780231175005 (hardcover) |
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