Full Description
This book focuses on the modern Chinese society with fierce conflicts and debates between Chinese medicine and western medicine. It is trying to reproduce how Chinese medicine used its own knowledge system of exogenous febrile diseases in the process of scientific experiments of western medicine and gradually occupying the national health sovereignty to build a set of TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) infectious disease studies, and find the space for Chinese medicine to function in daily life. Influenced by modern medicine, many of TCM clinical techniques are in a "quasi lost" status. There are very limited of national investment, which hinders the application of traditional medicine theory and skills. Through the study of medical history, the author wishes to improve self-awareness of understanding and confidence of traditional Chinese medicine scholars in their own system, and expects more researchers and intellectuals to assurance the value of traditional Chinese medicine culture, come out of the shadow of "abolishing traditional Chinese medicine" for a hundred years, sublate the stereotype, and also provide another possibility for practical treatment and daily recuperation.
Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction: What is the Correlation between the History of TCM and Bacteriology?.- Chapter 2. The Convergence of Modern Chinese and Western Medicine before the Antibacterial Discussion.- Chapter 3. History of Antibacterial Books -- Literature on Exogenous Fevers of TCM during the Republic of China Period.- Chapter 4. The Interpretation of Diseases in the Chinese and Western Medical History -- the Emergence and Regeneration of "Typhoid Fever".- Chapter 5. Bacteria and Qi -- the Absorption, Elimination and Rejection of Western Bacteria Theory by TCM during the Republic of China Period.- Chapter 6. The Practice and Dilemma of New TCM -- Yun Tieqiao's Talk on the Treatise on Typhoid Fever and Bacteriology.- Chapter 7. Qi and the Individuals -- the Discussion of Body, Disease and Living Space in the TCM Fever Diseases.- Chapter 8. Epidemic Prevention Technology and Antibacterial Thought of TCM during the Republic of China Period.- Chapter 9. Recuperation, Diet and Taboo -- the Transformation of Classical Theory in the World of the Sick.- Chapter 10. Conclusion: Writing Modern Chinese History with Chinese Medicine.
