Traditional European and Chinese Definitions of Illness and Medical Practice

A Reevaluation of Differences and Parallels on the Basis of the Work of Hsü Ta-ch’un, an 18th Century Intellectual, Physician, and Medical Author
  • Paul U. Unschuld

Abstract

So-called Traditional Chinese Medicine has become, over the past years, a focus of interest of a few European and North American academicians pursuing historical, anthropological, or related research, and of a much larger number of health care providers searching for alternative or complementary perspectives to what they consider the inadequate or erraneous approaches of so-called Western medicine.

Keywords

Traditional Chinese Medicine Western Medicine High Ranking Official Medical Thinking Morphological Pathology 
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© Friedr. Vieweg & Sohn Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, Braunschweig 1991

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  • Paul U. Unschuld

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