Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Vincanne Adams |
Publication | Cultural Anthropology |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 542-575 |
Date | Nov., 2001 |
ISSN | 08867356 |
Short Title | The Sacred in the Scientific |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/656648 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:29:54 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Anthropology and/in/of Science / Full publication date: Nov., 2001 / Copyright © 2001 American Anthropological Association |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Joseph S Alter |
Publication | The Journal of Asian Studies |
Volume | 67 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 1165-1186 |
Date | Nov 2008 |
Journal Abbr | J Asian Stud |
ISSN | 0021-9118 |
Short Title | Rethinking the history of medicine in Asia |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/19149016 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:15:15 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19149016 |
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In 1963 Hakim Mohammed Said took a Pakistani delegation from the Society for the Promotion of Eastern Medicine on a monthlong trip to China to meet with and learn from practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine. This essay focuses on Said’s interpretation of the history of medicine in Asia, which was inspired by his trip and informed by a broad, global understanding of how Unani medicine developed from the eighth century to the present. Said’s advocacy of Eastern Medicine provides a way to think about the history of medicine and medical revitalization that is not limited by colonial, postcolonial, or nationalist assumptions and priorities.
Type | Book |
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Author | Linda Barnes |
Place | Cambridge Mass. |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Date | 2005 |
ISBN | 9780674018723 |
Short Title | Needles, herbs, gods, and ghosts |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Anne D. Birdwhistell |
Publication | Philosophy East and West |
Volume | 45 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 1-28 |
Date | Jan., 1995 |
ISSN | 00318221 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1399507 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:09:21 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan., 1995 / Copyright © 1995 University of Hawai'i Press |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Lobsang Dhondup |
Author | Cynthia Husted |
Abstract | Multiple sclerosis is given as an example of how Tibetan medicine treats disease with its understanding of the interplay of the five elements, three humors, and their qualities and locations. The three-humor interpretation agrees with the microscopic three-humor description of demyelination. Treatments to promote regeneration include complementary medicine. |
Publication | Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences |
Volume | 1172 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 115-122 |
Date | 08/2009 |
DOI | 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04500.x |
ISSN | 00778923 |
URL | http://doi.wiley.com/10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.04500.x |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:38 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:05:38 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Wu Fei |
Publication | The China Journal |
Issue | 54 |
Pages | 7-27 |
Date | Jul., 2005 |
ISSN | 13249347 |
Short Title | "Gambling for Qi" |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/20066064 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:47:35 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul., 2005 / Copyright © 2005 Contemporary China Center, Australian National University |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Deborah Dysart Gale |
Author | W M Gorman-Yao |
Publication | Journal of Cultural Diversity |
Volume | 10 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 124-127 |
Date | 2003 |
Journal Abbr | J Cult Divers |
ISSN | 1071-5568 |
Short Title | Falungong |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15000055 |
Accessed | Friday, November 13, 2009 12:46:51 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 15000055 |
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Transcultural nursing literature provides a rich picture of prominent Chinese health-related beliefs derived from the traditions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism. However, these traditional beliefs are being challenged and modified in response to public discussion of a new spiritual movement, Falungong (also spelled Falun Gong). This movement calling for personal and social renewal has arisen in reaction to significant political and economic upheavals in Chinese society. This paper presents an overview of the Falungong movement and the health beliefs it advances. Implications for U.S. nursing practice are discussed.
Type | Book |
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Author | S. M Hillier |
Author | J. A Jewell |
Place | London |
Publisher | Routledge & Kegan Paul |
Date | 1983 |
ISBN | 0710094256 |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R601 .H5 1983 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Beginning with the period of the early expansion of Western missionary medicine, this account covers the chaotic years of Nationalist rule to the foundations of the People’s Republic in 1949. It trances the major influences on health care since then and describes the conflicts of State bureaucracy, Party and medical profession in their attempts to match political objectives in health care to resources available.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | T. J. Hinrichs |
Publication | Osiris |
Volume | 13 |
Pages | 287-325 |
Date | 1998 |
Series | 2nd Series |
ISSN | 03697827 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/301886 |
Accessed | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:08:33 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Beyond Joseph Needham: Science, Technology, and Medicine in East and Southeast Asia / Full publication date: 1998 / Copyright © 1998 The University of Chicago Press |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Alex Holland |
Publisher | North Atlantic Books |
Date | 2000 |
ISBN | 9781556433269 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
The physiological systems through which traditional Chinese medicine works are discussed, as well as acupuncture, moxibustion, Chinese herbal medicine, and how to select a practitioner.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Craig R. Janes |
Publication | Medical Anthropology Quarterly |
Volume | 9 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 6-39 |
Date | Mar., 1995 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 07455194 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/648555 |
Accessed | Sunday, November 08, 2009 11:59:48 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Mar., 1995 / Copyright © 1995 American Anthropological Association |
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This article presents a cultural and historical analysis of 20th-century Tibetan medicine. In its expansion into the state bureaucracy, Tibetan medicine has acceded to institutional modernity through transformations in theory, practice, and methods for training physicians. Despite Chinese rule in Tibet, however, Tibetan medicine has not yielded completely to state interests. With the collapsing of the traditionally pluralistic Tibetan health system into the professional sector of Tibetan medicine, contemporary Tibetan medicine has become to the laity a font of ethnic revitalization and resistance to the modernization policies of the Chinese state. These processes are particularly evident in the elaboration of disorders of rlung, a class of sicknesses that, collectively, have come to symbolize the suffering inherent in rapid social, economic, and political change.
Type | Book |
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Author | Huanguang Jia |
Date | 1997 |
Short Title | Chinese medicine in post-Mao China |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Livia Kohn |
Place | Magdalena, NM |
Publisher | Three Pines Press |
Date | 2006 |
ISBN | 1931483051 |
Short Title | Daoist Body Cultivation |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu.ezproxy.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | RA776.5 .D327 2006 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Presented by a group of dedicated scholars and practitioners, this volume covers the key practices of medical healing, breathing techniques, diets and fasting, healing exercises, sexual practices, Qigong, and Taiji quan.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Wei-Feng Li |
Author | Jian-Guo Jiang |
Author | Jian Chen |
Publication | Archives of Medical Research |
Volume | 39 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 246-251 |
Date | Feb 2008 |
Journal Abbr | Arch. Med. Res |
DOI | 10.1016/j.arcmed.2007.09.011 |
ISSN | 0188-4409 |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/18164973 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:16:24 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 18164973 |
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As a typical naturally derived drug, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) has developed for several thousands of years and accumulated abundant human pharmacological information and experience to form an integrated theory system. However, the problems of lower product quality, substandard codes and standards, and under-enhancement of fundamental research have restricted its further development and acceptance internationally. In this review, we explain the origin and developmental history of TCM, species involved in TCM, and their distributions in biotaxy. According to the status and problems, it is concluded that TCM modernization has become necessary and urgent. Modernization of TCM means the combination of TCM with modern technology, modern academic thoughts, and modern scientific culture, in which the most important point is to elucidate the active component of TCM, especially the material foundation of compound prescriptions and their pharmacodynamic mechanisms. Technology of analytical chemistry (HPLC, HPCE, HSCCC, etc.) and molecular biology (patch clamp, gene clamp, gene chip, fluorescent probe, DNA TUNEL assay, in situ hybridization, etc.) are useful tools to realize the modernization of TCM. Based on those studies and achievements and coupled with computer technology, all TCM products will achieve digitalization and normalization. TCM modernization will provide the world with useful reference information on traditional medicines.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Dennis Normile |
Publication | Science |
Volume | 299 |
Issue | 5604 |
Pages | 188-190 |
Date | Jan. 10, 2003 |
Series | New Series |
ISSN | 00368075 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3833313 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:49:07 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jan. 10, 2003 / Copyright © 2003 American Association for the Advancement of Science |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Paul Posadzki |
Author | Samantha Jacques |
Abstract | The aim of this article is to review the literature on Tai Chi and meditation. A coherent construct is developed that includes a comparative analysis and conceptual synthesis of existing theories. The authors discuss a set of assumptions that justify this synthesis; they also argue that this construct would facilitate greater understanding of Tai Chi from the perspective of meditation. Such synthesis may bring "additional" benefits to Tai Chi practitioners as they could recognize that this mind-body technique holds the essence of meditation. Within the scope of this article, the evidence shows a majority of common features when concerning Tai Chi and meditation. These mutual similarities should be taken into account when performing this type of mind-body medicine by patients and/or therapists. Finally, the authors suggest that this inspiring compilation of movements and mindfulness can be used for practical purposes. |
Publication | Journal of Holistic Nursing: Official Journal of the American Holistic Nurses' Association |
Volume | 27 |
Issue | 2 |
Pages | 103-114 |
Date | Jun 2009 |
Journal Abbr | J Holist Nurs |
DOI | 10.1177/0898010108330807 |
ISSN | 0898-0101 |
Short Title | Tai chi and meditation |
Accessed | Tuesday, February 22, 2011 7:08:07 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 19443697 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:07:00 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:07:00 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Paul Posadzki |
Author | Sheetal Parekh |
Author | Marie-Luce O'Driscoll |
Author | Dariusz Mucha |
Abstract | This paper qualitatively reviews two complementary therapies; Qi Gong and educational kinesiology (EK). It is being suggested that Qi Gong and EK may be united through a qualitative convergence and a shared underlying concept. The authors hypothesize that a coherent rationale can be formed through this conceptual synthesis and propose that to some extent Qi Gong movements and EK can be considered to work in unison with each other. The logical synthesis of these two therapies is being presented to identify Qi Gong movements with concepts of brain gymnastics and also to explain how this new construct can be developed and implemented into practice. When verified, this hypothesis will allow individuals to better understand Chinese health exercises from the modern science perspective such as neuroanatomy, neurophysiology and psychoneuroimmunology. |
Publication | Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies |
Volume | 14 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 73-79 |
Date | Jan 2010 |
Journal Abbr | J Bodyw Mov Ther |
DOI | 10.1016/j.jbmt.2008.11.002 |
ISSN | 1532-9283 |
Short Title | Qi Gong's relationship to educational kinesiology |
Accessed | Friday, January 29, 2010 11:52:46 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 20006292 |
Date Added | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:35 AM |
Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 9:04:35 AM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | R Z Qiu |
Publication | The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy |
Volume | 13 |
Issue | 3 |
Pages | 277-299 |
Date | Aug 1988 |
Journal Abbr | J Med Philos |
ISSN | 0360-5310 |
Short Title | Medicine--the art of humaneness |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/3058852 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:19:58 AM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 3058852 |
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This essay discusses the ethics of traditional Chinese medicine. After a brief remark on the history of traditional Chinese medical ethics, the author outlines the Confucian ethics which formed the cultural context in which traditional Chinese medicine was evolving and constituted the core of its ethics. Then he argued that how Chinese physicians applied the principles of Confucian ethics in medicine and prescribed the attitude a physician should take to himself, to patients and to his colleagues. In the last part of the essay he discusses the characteristics of traditional Chinese medical ethics.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Volker Scheid |
Publication | Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science |
Volume | 583 |
Pages | 136-159 |
Date | Sep., 2002 |
ISSN | 00027162 |
Short Title | Remodeling the Arsenal of Chinese Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1049693 |
Accessed | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 1:25:17 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Global Perspectives on Complementary and Alternative Medicine / Full publication date: Sep., 2002 / Copyright © 2002 American Academy of Political and Social Science |
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The discourse on alternative medicine assumes that medical practices exist as distinctive medical systems that compete with each other in plural health care systems. Anthropological and historical research clearly demonstrates, however, that this is not so. Many so-called traditional medicines are revealed as inventions of distinctly modern regimes of knowledge and institutional practice, while the political needs of healers and the epistemological desires of researchers converge in the construction of distinctive medical practices for description, classification, and comparison. This article draws on genealogy as a possible way out of this impasse. It shows how different generations of physicians of Chinese medicine employed the same four core concepts to reflect on their practice, imbuing them with ever new meanings to relate them to the changing demands of clinical and political practice. Examining these core concepts reveals something about the essence of Chinese medicine without reducing our analysis to a misguided search for cultural essences.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | John Wm. Schiffeler |
Publication | Asian Folklore Studies |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 1 |
Pages | 17-35 |
Date | 1976 |
ISSN | 03852342 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/1177648 |
Accessed | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 12:00:47 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: 1976 / Copyright © 1976 Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Phillip Shinnick |
Publication | Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine (New York, N.Y.) |
Volume | 12 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 351-353 |
Date | May 2006 |
Journal Abbr | J Altern Complement Med |
DOI | 10.1089/acm.2006.12.351 |
ISSN | 1075-5535 |
Short Title | Qigong |
URL | http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.ezproxy.bu.edu/pubmed/16722782 |
Accessed | Monday, November 02, 2009 1:11:25 PM |
Library Catalog | NCBI PubMed |
Extra | PMID: 16722782 |
Date Added | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Michel Strickmann |
Place | Stanford Calif. |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Date | 2002 |
ISBN | 9780804734493 |
Library Catalog | Open WorldCat |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
This book argues that the most profound and far-reaching effects of Buddhism on Chinese culture occurred at the level of practice, specifically in religious rituals designed to cure people of disease, demonic possession, and bad luck. This practice would leave its most lasting imprint on the liturgical tradition of Taoism. In focusing on religious practice, it provides a corrective to traditional studies of Chinese religion, which overemphasize metaphysics and spirituality.
Type | Book |
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Author | Betty Sutherland |
Publisher | Singing Dragon |
Date | 2011-06-15 |
ISBN | 1848190557 |
Short Title | Chi for Children |
Library Catalog | Amazon.com |
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Modified | Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:53:56 AM |
Type | Book |
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Author | Paul U Unschuld |
Place | Berkeley |
Publisher | University of California Press |
Date | 1985 |
ISBN | 0520050231 |
Short Title | Medicine in China |
Library Catalog | library.bu.edu Library Catalog |
Call Number | R602 .U56 1985 |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
In the first comprehensive and analytical study of therapeutic concepts and practices in China, Paul Unschuld traces the history of documented health care from its earliest extant records to present developments.
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Andrew Vickers |
Author | Catherine Zollman |
Publication | BMJ: British Medical Journal |
Volume | 319 |
Issue | 7215 |
Pages | 973-976 |
Date | Oct. 9, 1999 |
ISSN | 09598138 |
Short Title | ABC of Complementary Medicine |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/25186035 |
Accessed | Monday, November 09, 2009 12:27:07 AM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Oct. 9, 1999 / Copyright © 1999 BMJ Publishing Group |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Jian Xu |
Publication | The Journal of Asian Studies |
Volume | 58 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 961-991 |
Date | Nov., 1999 |
ISSN | 00219118 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/2658492 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:53:25 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Nov., 1999 / Copyright © 1999 Association for Asian Studies |
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Modified | Saturday, October 01, 2011 5:02:41 PM |
Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Mei Zhan |
Publication | Cultural Anthropology |
Volume | 16 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 453-480 |
Date | Nov., 2001 |
ISSN | 08867356 |
Short Title | Does It Take a Miracle? |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/656646 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:51:19 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Issue Title: Anthropology and/in/of Science / Full publication date: Nov., 2001 / Copyright © 2001 American Anthropological Association |
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Type | Journal Article |
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Author | Daqing Zhang |
Author | Zhifan Cheng |
Publication | The Hastings Center Report |
Volume | 30 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | S8-S12 |
Date | Jul. - Aug., 2000 |
ISSN | 00930334 |
URL | http://www.jstor.org.ezproxy.bu.edu/stable/3527656 |
Accessed | Monday, October 12, 2009 11:52:19 PM |
Library Catalog | JSTOR |
Extra | ArticleType: primary_article / Full publication date: Jul. - Aug., 2000 / Copyright © 2000 The Hastings Center |
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The value system of medical ethics in China has a long tradition that can be traced back to ancient times. Those values are reflected in the (Confucian) precept that “medicine is a humane art.” That is, medicine is not only a means to save people’s lives, but also a moral commitment to love people and free them from suffering through personal caring and medical treatment. Although this precept has been well accepted as the basic principle of professional ethics as general principle that emphasizes doctors’ self-accomplishment and self-restraint, there has never been a universally accepted professional code and binding principles in Chinese medicine comparable to the Hippocratic Oath in western medicine.