Knowing practice (Record no. 49463)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780813330167
028 ## - DISTRIBUTOR NAME
Distributor Name International Book Distributors
Distributor address ;Flat No.17,Prakash Apartments ,5 Ansari Road ,Daryaganj New Delhi-110002
Bill Number ;112268
Bill Date ;18/05/2018
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 615.53 FAR
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Judith Farquhar
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Knowing practice
Remainder of title : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine
Statement of responsibility, etc /Judith Farquhar
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc Boulder
Name of publisher, distributor, etc : Westview Press
Date of publication, distribution, etc , 1994.
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent xii, 260 pages
Other physical details : illustrations
Dimensions ; 24 cm.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement Studies in the ethnographic imagination.
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Contents note Introduction: "We Take Practice to Be Our Guide" --<br/>1. Chinese Medicine as Institutional Object and Historical Moment. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine. Senior Doctors. Scientizing. Chinese Medicine Beyond the Institutions --<br/>2. Preliminary Orientations: Sources and Manifestations, Unity and Multiplicity. Chinese Medicine's Challenge to Comparison. Cosmogony and Transformation. Sources and Manifestations. Understanding Clinical Action --<br/>3. The Clinical Encounter Observed. Three Case Histories. Three Illnesses: Translations of Case Histories. The Temporal Form of the Kanbing Process --<br/>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 --<br/>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 --<br/>6. Remanifesting the Syndrome and Qualifying the Therapy: Formulary and Materia Medica. Remanifesting: Formulary and the Production of Prescriptions (Fang). Qualifying: Materia Medica (Bencao) --<br/>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 --<br/>Appendix A: Romanization Conversion Table --<br/>Appendix B: Chinese and Pharmaceutical Names of Drugs Used in Cases 1-3 --<br/>Glossary of Chinese Terms.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc <br/>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
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element Social Sciences
655 ## - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Pharmacology and therapeutics
700 ## - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Judith Farquhar
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    Dewey Decimal Classification   Not For Loan SNU LIBRARY SNU LIBRARY 01/06/2018 3601.00   615.53 FAR 25177 01/06/2018 01/06/2018 Books

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