TY - BOOK ID - 65198004 TI - A way of life PY - 2020 SN - 9780300237238 0300237235 0300252676 9780300252675 PB - New Haven, CT DB - UniCat KW - Medicine, Chinese KW - Medicine, Chinese Traditional KW - Chinese Traditional Medicine KW - Traditional Chinese Medicine KW - Traditional Tongue Assessment KW - Traditional Tongue Diagnosis KW - Chinese Medicine, Traditional KW - Chung I Hsueh KW - Traditional Medicine, Chinese KW - Zhong Yi Xue KW - Hsueh, Chung I KW - Tongue Assessment, Traditional KW - Tongue Diagnoses, Traditional KW - Tongue Diagnosis, Traditional KW - Traditional Tongue Assessments KW - Traditional Tongue Diagnoses KW - Acupuncture Therapy KW - Medicine, Kampo KW - Chinese medicine KW - TCM (Medicine) KW - Traditional Chinese medicine KW - Traditional medicine KW - S21/0300 KW - China: Medicine, public health and food--Chinese medicine: general KW - MEDICAL KW - Medicine, Chinese Traditional. KW - Medicine, Chinese. KW - Alternative Medicine. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:65198004 AB - Traditional Chinese medicine is often viewed as mystical or superstitious, with outcomes requiring naìˆve faith. Judith Farquhar, drawing on her hard-won knowledge of social, intellectual, and clinical worlds in today's China, here offers a concise and nuanced treatment that addresses enduring and troublesome ontological, epistemological, and ethical questions. In this work, which is based on her 2017 Terry Lectures "Reality, Reason, and Action In and Beyond Chinese Medicine," she considers how the modern, rationalized, and scientific field of traditional Chinese medicine constructs its very real objects (bodies, symptoms, drugs), how experts think through and sort out pathology and health (yinyang, right qi/wrong qi, stasis, flow), and how contemporary doctors act responsibly to "seek out the root" of bodily disorder. Through this refined investigation, East-West contrasts collapse, and systematic Chinese medicine, no longer a mystery or a pseudo-science, can become a philosophical ally and a rich resource for a more capacious science. ER -