Chinese medical science

[Guest guest]

Dear All,

 

I have been reading from Anthology of Policies, Regulations and Laws of the

PRC on TCM. It starts with the following statement +ACI-TCM is ... And it is an

important component part of Chinese medical science+ACI-. Can anyone define

Chinese medical science and/or accurately describe its content?

 

Garry Seifert.

[Guest guest]

Garry:

 

I just got this in the mail. So perhaps it's not a resolved question.

 

Jim Ramholz

 

 

Conference Announcement

THE DISNUNITY OF CHINESE SCIENCE

 

May 10-12, 2002

Place: Seminar Room, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University

of Chicago

 

Traditional histories of Chinese science, technology, and medicine

have often been based on an assumed science-and-civilization

framework, namely the idea that one can speak of civilizations as

distinct, competing entities and then use science to measure their

progress toward modernity. Recent studies, however, have begun to

challenge the asserted continuities in language, philosophy, and

culture on which such claims of the unity of civilizations were

based; at the same time, science itself is increasingly understood

not as a unified system but as local practices inseparable from

cultural context. This conference hopes to consider the implications

of these studies and to integrate a variety of disciplines in order

to inquire into the directions that future studies of Chinese

science, technology, and medicine might take.

 

PARTICIPANTS:

Karine Chemla (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France)

Juliette Chung (Hofstra University)

Christopher Cullen (University of London, UK)

Benjamin Elman (University of California, Los Angeles)

Fa-ti Fan (SUNY, Binghamton)

Marta Hanson (University of California, San Diego)

Donald Harper (University of Chicago)

Roger Hart (University of Texas, Austin)

Florence Hsia (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Tong Lam (University of Chicago)

Sean Lei (National Tsing-hua University, Taiwan)

Haun Saussy (Stanford University)

Edward Shaughnessy (University of Chicago)

Nathan Sivin (University of Pennsylvania)

Yi-Li Wu (Albion College)

 

Organizers: Roger Hart (UT Austin) and Robert J. Richards

(University of Chicago)

 

Sponsored by the Fishbein Center for the History of Science and

Medicine,Franke Institute for the Humanities, Division of the Social

Sciences, and Division of the Humanities, University of Chicago.

 

 

 

, " Garry Seifert " <seifert@n...> wrote:

> Dear All,

>

> I have been reading from Anthology of Policies, Regulations and

Laws of the PRC on TCM. It starts with the following statement +ACI-

TCM is ... And it is an important component part of Chinese medical

science+ACI-. Can anyone define Chinese medical science and/or

accurately describe its content?

>

> Garry Seifert.