Chinese Medicine History and Contemporary Practice in the West

作     者：Mary Garvey 

作者机构：Faculty of Science University of Technology Sydney 15 Broadway Sydney NSW Australia 

出 版 物：《Journal of Health Science》 (健康科学（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2014年第2卷第6期

页      面：284-290页

学科分类：12[管理学] 1204[管理学-公共管理] 120402[管理学-社会医学与卫生事业管理(可授管理学、医学学位)] 1004[医学-公共卫生与预防医学(可授医学、理学学位)] 10[医学] 

主　　题：Social science bio-science tradition research therapy multidisciplinary scholarship. 

摘      要：In the health care professions today, research guides best clinical practice. Yet, the methodological constraints required by the two main branches of research into Chinese medicine--bio-scientific and socio-historical--rarely assist Chinese medicine students, practitioners, or clinical researchers with treatment and practice issues. A great deal of bio-scientific research assumes that it must be possible to utilise and test Chinese medicine from within a biomedical framework. However, by isolating therapeutic techniques and substances and standardising treatment protocols, bio-scientific research removes Chinese medicine＇s inbuilt flexibility and responsiveness to clinical instances and changes. While researchers in the historical and social sciences can reveal the sophisticated discourses built around Chinese medicine＇s distinctive approach to knowing the world and the body-person, they normally do not discuss the implications of their work for contemporary clinical practice. The paper advocates a synthetic approach using multidisciplinary sources within and adjacent to the field of Chinese medicine. Multidisciplinary researchers contest the simplified and biomedicalised version of Chinese medicine generally available in English speaking countries today. They can assist English speakers to approach Chinese medicine＇s traditional perspectives, demonstrate their relevance for contemporary clinical practice and help restore the traditional connectedness between Chinese medicine＇s theoretical concepts and its treatment methods.