What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healingis the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine from their beginnings in the centuries BCE through present advances in sciences like molecular biology and in Western adaptations of traditional Chinese medicine. In his revolutionary interpretation of the basic forces that undergird shifts in medical theory, Paul U. Unschuld relates the history of medicine in both Europe and China to changes in politics, economics, and other contextual factors. Drawing on his own extended research of Chinese primary sources as well as his and others' scholarship in European medical history, Unschuld argues against any claims of "truth" in former and current, Eastern and Western models of physiology and pathology.What Is Medicine?makes an eloquent and timely contribution to discussions on health care policies while illuminating the nature of cognitive dynamics in medicine, and it stimulates fresh debate on the essence and interpretation of reality in medicine's attempts to manage the human organism.

Preface
Life = Body Plus X 1
Medicine, or Novelty Appeal
Why Laws of Nature?
Longing for Order
Ethics and Legality
Why Here? Why Now?
Thales' Trite Observation
Polis, Law, and Self-determination
The Individual and the Whole
Nonmedical Healing
Mawangdui: Early Healing in China
Humans Are Biologically Identical across Cultures.So Why Not Medicine?
The Yellow Thearch's Body Image
The Birth of Chinese Medicine
The Division of the Elite
A View to the Visible, and Opinions on the Invisible
State Concept and Body Image
Farewell to Demons and Spirits
New Pathogens, and Morality
Medicine without Pharmaceutics
Pharmaceutics without Medicine
Puzzling Parallels
The Beginning of Medicine in Greece
The End of Monarchy
Troublemakers and Ostracism
I See Something You Don't See
Powers of Self-healing: Self-evident?
Confucians' Fear of Chaos
Medicine: Expression of the General State of Mind
Dynamic Ideas and Faded Model Images
The Hour of the Dissectors
Manifold Experiences of the World
Greek Medicine and Roman Incomprehension
Illness as Stasis
Head and Limbs
The Rediscovery of Wholeness
To Move the Body to a Statement
Galen of Pergamon: Collector in All Worlds
Europe's Ancient Pharmacology
The Wheel of Progress Turns No More
Constancy and Discontinuity of Structures
Arabian Interlude
The Tang Era: Cultural Diversity, Conceptual Vacuum
Changes in the Song Era
The Authority of Distant Antiquity
Zhang Ji's Belated Honors
Chinese Pharmacology
The Diagnosis Game
The Physician as the Pharmacist's Employee
Relighting the Torch of European Antiquity
The Primacy of the Practical
The Variety of Therapeutics
Which Model Image for a New Medicine?
The Real Heritage of Antiquity
Galenism as Trade in Antiques
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Integration and Reductionism in the Song Dynasty
The New Freedom to Expand Knowledge
Healing the State, Healing the Organism
Trapped in the Cage of Tradition
Xu Dachun, Giovanni Morgagni, and Intra-abdominal Abscesses
Acupuncturists, Barbers, and Masseurs
No Scientific Revolution in Medicine
The Discovery of New Worlds
Paracelsus: A Tumultuous Mind with an Overview
Durable and Fragile Cage Bars
The Most Beautiful Antiques and the Most Modern Images
One Room
Harvey and the Magna Carta
A Cartesian Case for Circulation
Long Live the Periphery!
Out of the Waiting Shelter, into the Jail Cell
Sensations that Pull into the Lower Parts of the Body
Homeopathy Is Not Medicine
"God with Us" on the Belt Buckle
Medicine Independent of Theology
Virchow: The Man of Death as the Interpreter of Life
Robert Koch: Pure Science?
Wash Your Hands, Keep the Germs Away
AIDS: The Disease that Fits
China in the Nineteenth Century: A New Cage Opens Up
Two Basic Ideas of Medicine
Value-free Biology and Cultural Interpretation
A Transit Visa and a Promise
Scorn, Mockery, and Invectives for Chinese Medicine
Traditional Medicine in the PRC: Faith in Science
The Arabs of the Twentieth Century, or Crowding in the Playpen
When the Light Comes from Behind
In the Beginning Was the Word
Out of Touch with Nature
Theology without Theos
Everything Will Be Fine
Left Alone in the Computer Tomograph
Healing and the Energy Crisis
TCM: Western Fears, Chinese Set Pieces
Harmony, Not War
The Loss of the Center
Contented Customers in a Supermarket of Possibilities
The More Things Change
One World, or Tinkering with Building Blocks
A Vision of Unity over All Diversity
Afterword
Notes
Index
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