Medicine in China : a history of ideas /
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| Author / Creator: | Unschuld, Paul U. (Paul Ulrich), 1943- |
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| Edition: | 25th anniversary ed. |
| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, 2010. |
| Description: | xxxv, 423 p. : ill. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care Comparative studies of health systems and medical care. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7995571 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Illness and healing in Shang culture:
- Shang culture and society
- Responses to illness
- Harmony between the living and the dead
- Illness as an indication of crisis
- Illness as the result of 'natural' influences
- Shang healers
- Concluding remarks.
- 2. The Chou Period and demonic medicine:
- Historical background
- Concepts of demonological therapy
- The practice of demonological therapy
- The concept of Ku.
- 3. Unification of the empire, Confucianism, and the medicine of systematic correspondence:
- The paradigm of correspondences
- Magic correspondence
- Systemic correspondence
- The Yinyang Doctrine and the issue of syncretism
- The Doctrine of the Five Phases
- Aspects of Confucian political and social doctrine
- Fundamental principles of the Medicine of Systemic correspondence
- The concepts of Wind and Ch'i
- Structure and function of the organism
- Diagnostic principles of systematic correspondence
- Classic acupuncture: origins and therapeutic principles
- Concluding remarks.
- 4. Taoism and pragmatic drug therapy: from Antifeudal Social Theory to individualistic practices of longevity:
- Social Theory of early Taoism
- Early Taoism and the question of life and death
- The influence of Taoism on the Huang-ti nei-ching
- Taoist macrobiotics and the liberation of the individual
- The origins and early development of pragmatic drug therapy.
- 5. Religious healing: the foundation of Theocratic Rule:
- Social conditions during Later Han
- T'ai-p'ing ideology and the Yellow Turban Revolt
- Physical existence: tensions between daily life and the ethos of nature
- The Five-Pecks-of-Rice Movement and the State of Chang Lu.
- 6. Buddhism and Indian medicine:
- Early Buddhism in China
- Indian medicine and the Buddhist literature of China
- Indian cataract surgery in China
- The Chinese reception of Indian Buddhist medicine.
- 7. Sung Neo-Confucianism and medical thought: progress with an eye to the past:
- A survey of political and intellectual developments between the sixth and thirteenth centuries
- The Sui and T'ang epochs
- The Sung epoch
- Cultural and social trends as reflected in medical thought
- Reductionism and the narrowing of categories
- Chang Chi and the adoption of restricted etiology
- The cosmobiological concepts Wu-yun liu-ch'i
- Individuals contributions to contemporary trends
- Liu Wan-su
- Chang ts'ung-cheng
- Ch'en Yen
- Li Kao
- The pharmacology of systematic correspondence
- The fourfold categorization of drug qualities
- The sixfold categorization of drug qualities
- The fivefold categorization of drug qualities
- The determination of primary qualities.
- 8. Medical thought during the Ming and Ch'ing epochs: the individual in search of reality:
- Political and intellectual developments
- The Ming Epoch (1368-1636)
- The Ch'ing Epoch (1636-1912)
- Medical thought
- The intellectual environment
- The spectrum of conceptual approaches
- Searching the interior
- Searching the exterior
- Searching the past
- Searching down below
- Searching far ahead
- Demonology, 'psychiatry', and 'psychoanalysis'
- The heterogeneity of Chinese medicine during the decline of the empire.
- 9. Medicine in twentieth-century China:
- A survey of intellectual currents in the twentieth century
- The appearance and spread of Western medicine in China
- Concepts of modern Western medicine
- The medical missionaries : objectives and methods
- Science and scientific medicine in the twentieth century: changes in conceptual legitimation
- The combination of Western and Chinese medicine and the emergence of a new therapy
- Therapeutic plurality in present-day China.
- Appendix: Primary texts in translation:
- 1. Huang-ti nei-ching t'ai-su:
- Manifestations of winds at the eight seasonal turning points
- The nine palaces and the eight winds
- The three conditions of depletion and the three conditions of abundance
- The transmission of evil
- Longevity, early death, firmness, and softness
- Natural phenomena that must be avoided
- Various statements on winds
- On all types of winds
- On the numerous manifestations of wind;
- 2. Huang-ti nei-ching su-wen:
- On the [preservation of the] true [influences endowed by] heaven in high antiquity
- Comprehensive treatise on the regulation of the spirit in accord with the four seasons
- Comprehensive treatise on the phenomena associated with the categories of Yin and Yang
- Additional treatise on the Five Depots
- Treatise on the various methods of treatment that correspond to the four cardinal points
- Treatise on changes in the [assimilation of] essence and on the transformation of influences
- Treatise on the secrets of Mr. Yu and on the true depots
- Treatise on influences in the depots as patterned by [the normal progression of] the seasons
- Blood and influences, body and mind
- On Yao-illnesses;
- 3. Chu-ping yuan hou lun:
- Symptomatology of [the illness] 'hit-by-wind'
- Symptomatology of [the illness caused by] wind-evil
- Symptomology of [the illness caused by] malevolent wind
- Symptomology of ascending influences
- Symptomology of sudden [abdominal-intestinal] distress caused by being hit by the malevolent
- Symptomology of [the illness] 'Hit-by-the-Malevolent'
- Symptomology of a Demon attack
- Symptomology of evil possession
- Symptomology of nosebleeding
- Symptomology of harelip;
- 4. Ch'ien-chin i-fang:
- Techniques of gesticulative magic;
- 5. Wai-t'ai pi-yao:
- Eight prescriptions against an exchange of Yin or Yang [influences] following a cold-induced injury
- Forty-two prescriptions against illnesses caused by natural [influences], resulting in sweating or similar symptoms
- Four prescriptions against sexual intercourse with spirits and demons
- Three techniques to ward off snakes;
- 6. Taisho tripitaka:
- Sutra containing pronouncements of Buddha on Buddhist medicine
- Sutra of the thousand-handed, thousand-eyed Avalokitesvara Bodhisattva on the treatment of illnesses and the preparation of drugs;
- 7. Ju-men shih-ch'in:
- Madness
- Fetid breath
- Noises during knee bends
- Conception of a child following a purgative therapy;
- 8. Ku-chin i-t'ung ta-ch'uan:
- The origins of illnesses
- On injuries caused by the evil
- All injuries caused by evil originate in the senses
- Integrated treatment using spells and drugs;
- 9. Chang-shih lei-ching:
- Exorcism of the causes;
- 10. Shih-shih mi-lu:
- Direct therapy
- Reverse therapy;
- 11. Hsu Ling-t'ai i-shu ch'uan-chi:
- On illnesses caused by demons and spirits
- Illnesses resulting from [demon-caused] injuries
- Demon-caused pregnancies;
- 12. Tzu-jan pien-cheng fa:
- The struggle for and against a belief in fate in the medicine of our land;
- 13. Tsen-yang chan-sheng man-hsing chi-ping:
- How to recognize illnesses of the human body
- Some insights regarding the use of drugs;
- 14. Wen-hui pao:
- The evaluation of acupuncture anesthesia must seek truth from facts.
