Constructive Realism in Chinese Medicine
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Constructive Realism in Chinese Medicine

  1. 360 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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About this book

This book shows how to establish an integrative medicine by the example of a possible cooperation between Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM) and Western Medicine (WM). In the beginning we need to be aware of fundamental differences in the conceptualization and the respective self-understanding of the medical doing. WM follows the Newtonian concept of science, using Aristotelian logics and descriptive methodology. CCM on the other hand uses highly elaborated metaphorics and constructive self-understanding. Therefore, an integrative cooperation between CCM and WM appears to be reduced to addition. But – this book elaborates how constructivism – especially in the form of Constructive Realism (CR) – can build a bridge between WM and CCM: The concept of micro-worlds offers a way of cooperation between CCM and WM as contradicting systems. Strangification, the central hermeneutical methodology of CR, enriches medical terminology. It unites what often excludes one another: manifoldness and exactness. Besides this general outcome, the book offers very interesting specific results of research: • A new way of treatment for cancer • How acupuncture can be used to treat sleep disorders • The effectiveness of acupuncture and herbal remedies for the treatment of migraine • A digression to the treatment of Qi pain in Korean acupuncture and moxibustion Five contributions to other aspects and dimensions of Constructive Realism complete the book.

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Year
2020
Print ISBN
9783959484848
eBook ISBN
9783959487689

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Titelei
  3. Impressum
  4. Inhaltsverzeichnis
  5. Friedrich Wallner ~ Opening address: Constructive Realism mediating East and West
  6. PRELUDIUM:APPROACHES TO CONSTRUCTIVE REALISM
  7. PRACTICE OF CHINESE MEDICINE FROM THE VIEWPOINT OF CONSTRUCTIVE REALISM
  8. CONSTRUCTIVE REALISMIN DISCUSSION

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