EAS396H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Artemisinin, Blind Experiment, Palpation
25 Oct 2016
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Chinese in republican china debated on whether chinese medicine was scientific. And since then chinese have transformed chinese medicine to make it "modern" and. 1st reading: a riddle in history of medicine: the human body is universal. A. vitality (qi and blood) (not from touchable organs) The differences between these two medical traditions had taken shape by the turn of the 2nd and 3rd centuries. Muscular body appeared in the work of the greek doctor galen (130 200 c. e) The perceptions of the body owe as much to particular uses of the. The distances between two body representations are perceptual as well as theoretical. Flush (us women) vs. stiffed shoulder (japanese women) on their first complains on menopause. (china) to know the invisible, inaudible, intangible truth of the body through bodily expressions. (biomedical) diagnostic technologies: pulse taking, mri, ct scan etc, (not in patients" narratives) Empirically, the pulse is nothing more than a series of beats and pauses.
