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E-mail Message: I thought you might be interested in this item at http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/28420628 Title: Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine Author: Judith Farquhar Publisher: Boulder : Westview Press, 1994. ISBN/ISSN: 0813385334 9780813385334 OCLC:28420628

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Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine

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Knowing practice : the clinical encounter of Chinese medicine

Author:	Judith Farquhar
Publisher:	Boulder : Westview Press, 1994.
Series:	Studies in the ethnographic imagination.
Edition/Format:	Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
Summary:	This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms
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Additional Physical Format:	Online version: Farquhar, Judith. Knowing practice. Boulder : Westview Press, 1994 (OCoLC)671560615
Document Type:	Book
All Authors / Contributors:	Judith Farquhar Find more information about:
ISBN:	0813385334 9780813385334
OCLC Number:	28420628
Description:	xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents:	Introduction: "We Take Practice to Be Our Guide" -- 1. Chinese Medicine as Institutional Object and Historical Moment. The Institutionalization of Chinese Medicine. Senior Doctors. Scientizing. Chinese Medicine Beyond the Institutions -- 2. Preliminary Orientations: Sources and Manifestations, Unity and Multiplicity. Chinese Medicine's Challenge to Comparison. Cosmogony and Transformation. Sources and Manifestations. Understanding Clinical Action -- 3. The Clinical Encounter Observed. Three Case Histories. Three Illnesses: Translations of Case Histories. The Temporal Form of the Kanbing Process -- 4. Description and Analysis in Kanbing. Describing: The Four Examinations (Sizhen). Analyzing: The Major Classificatory Methods. Eight Rubrics (Ba Gang) Analysis. Illness Factor (Bingyin) Analysis. Visceral Systems (Zangfu) Analysis. Four Sectors (Wei Qi Ying Xue) Analysis. Six Warps (Liu Jing) Analysis. Concluding Remarks on Analysis -- 5. The Syndrome-Therapy Pivot. Defining the Syndrome (Zheng[subscript 3]). Differentiating the Syndrome (Bianzheng). Determining Treatment Methods (Lunzhi). The Archive, the Past, the Doctor as Agent -- 6. Remanifesting the Syndrome and Qualifying the Therapy: Formulary and Materia Medica. Remanifesting: Formulary and the Production of Prescriptions (Fang). Qualifying: Materia Medica (Bencao) -- 7. Classification, Specificity, History, and Action: An Overview of the Clinical Encounter. Illness In, Drugs Out. Speech and Silence. Specificity. Short Forms of the Clinical Encounter. Yinyang Reexamined -- Appendix A: Romanization Conversion Table -- Appendix B: Chinese and Pharmaceutical Names of Drugs Used in Cases 1-3 -- Glossary of Chinese Terms.
Series Title:	Studies in the ethnographic imagination.
Responsibility:	Judith Farquhar.
More information:	Contributor biographical information Publisher description

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This book examines the theory and practice of traditional medicine in modern China. Farquhar describes the logic of diagnosis and treatment from the inside perspective of doctors and scholars. She demonstrates how theoretical and textual materials interweave with the practical requirements of the clinic. By showing how Chinese medical choices are made, she considers problems of agency in relation to different forms of knowledge.

Knowing Practice will be of value not only to anthropologists interested in medical practice but also to historians, sociologists, and others interested in the social life of technical expertise and traditional teachings.

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