Health Sciences 3025A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Cauterization, Biomedicine, Kidney Stone Disease
14 Dec 2016
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Class 6 – 3025A September 28, 2016
Chinese Medicine
How do we measure medical outcomes?
Example f a Chinese man suffering form kidney stones and he is offered two
different procedures which have been shown to work – one is surgery and the other
is traditional herbal medicine which takes longer but the outcomes are good and it
is more painful (in txt)
If in China you would have a surgery you would be considered as an invalid, and
therefore he would not ever get a promotion in his job
But in the end he got better, it is not like he sacrificed his health for his work
Natural = good; chemical = bad
• We have constant representation of that^
• Not everything that is natural is actually good at all, and Chinese has some
real toxic natural things
We tend to pick and choose what we like
• Textbook example
• Sutures vs cauterization (burning and healing the wound), it is a lot cheaper
to cauterize someone and less expertise rather than having surgical
education
• We like natural; we dislike magical/mystical
• Qi – acertaina compact in chinese medicine
• Qi is in everything, it is inside all of us, the breath, the force, in all of our
surroundings
• Example – illness due to bad qi
o This concept was raised before the microscope – germ theory
• Sometimes concepts which we cannot define, are proven later with more
advanced instruments
China
• What do you know about China?
• Was first unified as a country
• It has largely remained as a unified country and a strong regional unit
• Because of power and status it has remained insular until 19th century until it
increased trading between the European powers
• History of chinese medicine is at least 2 millenia old
• The old texts we have about chinese mds is at least 2000 years old
• It is similar do biomedicine – involves similar things
• There are many competing approaches and phylosophies within chinese med
• Blood letting is not used in the modern biomedicine
o Chinese medicine is more of an art
• Rise TCM
o Rise to moderization
o Traditional chinese med was designed to make classical chinese
medical concepts more palable to the west, parallel towards
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Document Summary
Class 6 3025a different procedures which have been shown to work one is surgery and the other. Example f a chinese man suffering form kidney stones and he is offered two is traditional herbal medicine which takes longer but the outcomes are good and it is more painful (in txt) If in china you would have a surgery you would be considered as an invalid, and therefore he would not ever get a promotion in his job. But in the end he got better, it is not like he sacrificed his health for his work. Natural = good; chemical = bad: we have constant representation of that, not everything that is natural is actually good at all, and chinese has some real toxic natural things. China: what do you know about china, was first unified as a country, because of power and status it has remained insular until 19th century until it.
