Knowing practice
Judith Farquhar
Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine /Judith Farquhar - Boulder : Westview Press , 1994. - xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Studies in the ethnographic imagination. .
Introduction: "We Take Practice to Be Our Guide" --
1. Chinese Medicine as Institutional Object and Historical Moment. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine. Senior Doctors. Scientizing. Chinese Medicine Beyond the Institutions --
2. Preliminary Orientations: Sources and Manifestations, Unity and Multiplicity. Chinese Medicine's Challenge to Comparison. Cosmogony and Transformation. Sources and Manifestations. Understanding Clinical Action --
3. The Clinical Encounter Observed. Three Case Histories. Three Illnesses: Translations of Case Histories. The Temporal Form of the Kanbing Process --
4. Description and Analysis in Kanbing. Describing: The Four Examinations (Sizhen). Analyzing: The Major Classificatory Methods. Eight Rubrics (Ba Gang) Analysis. Illness Factor (Bingyin) Analysis. Visceral Systems (Zangfu) Analysis. Four Sectors (Wei Qi Ying Xue) Analysis. Six Warps (Liu Jing) Analysis. Concluding Remarks on Analysis --
5. The Syndrome-Therapy Pivot. Defining the Syndrome (Zheng[subscript 3]). Differentiating the Syndrome (Bianzheng). Determining Treatment Methods (Lunzhi). The Archive, the Past, the Doctor as Agent --
6. Remanifesting the Syndrome and Qualifying the Therapy: Formulary and Materia Medica. Remanifesting: Formulary and the Production of Prescriptions (Fang). Qualifying: Materia Medica (Bencao) --
7. Classification, Specificity, History, and Action: An Overview of the Clinical Encounter. Illness In, Drugs Out. Speech and Silence. Specificity. Short Forms of the Clinical Encounter. Yinyang Reexamined --
Appendix A: Romanization Conversion Table --
Appendix B: Chinese and Pharmaceutical Names of Drugs Used in Cases 1-3 --
Glossary of Chinese Terms.
This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms
9780813330167
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Pharmacology and therapeutics
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Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine /Judith Farquhar - Boulder : Westview Press , 1994. - xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. - Studies in the ethnographic imagination. .
Introduction: "We Take Practice to Be Our Guide" --
1. Chinese Medicine as Institutional Object and Historical Moment. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine. Senior Doctors. Scientizing. Chinese Medicine Beyond the Institutions --
2. Preliminary Orientations: Sources and Manifestations, Unity and Multiplicity. Chinese Medicine's Challenge to Comparison. Cosmogony and Transformation. Sources and Manifestations. Understanding Clinical Action --
3. The Clinical Encounter Observed. Three Case Histories. Three Illnesses: Translations of Case Histories. The Temporal Form of the Kanbing Process --
4. Description and Analysis in Kanbing. Describing: The Four Examinations (Sizhen). Analyzing: The Major Classificatory Methods. Eight Rubrics (Ba Gang) Analysis. Illness Factor (Bingyin) Analysis. Visceral Systems (Zangfu) Analysis. Four Sectors (Wei Qi Ying Xue) Analysis. Six Warps (Liu Jing) Analysis. Concluding Remarks on Analysis --
5. The Syndrome-Therapy Pivot. Defining the Syndrome (Zheng[subscript 3]). Differentiating the Syndrome (Bianzheng). Determining Treatment Methods (Lunzhi). The Archive, the Past, the Doctor as Agent --
6. Remanifesting the Syndrome and Qualifying the Therapy: Formulary and Materia Medica. Remanifesting: Formulary and the Production of Prescriptions (Fang). Qualifying: Materia Medica (Bencao) --
7. Classification, Specificity, History, and Action: An Overview of the Clinical Encounter. Illness In, Drugs Out. Speech and Silence. Specificity. Short Forms of the Clinical Encounter. Yinyang Reexamined --
Appendix A: Romanization Conversion Table --
Appendix B: Chinese and Pharmaceutical Names of Drugs Used in Cases 1-3 --
Glossary of Chinese Terms.
This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms
9780813330167
International Book Distributors ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002
Social Sciences
Pharmacology and therapeutics
615.53 FAR
