Subject: in the woods with Prof Unschuld

[Guest guest]

, " facteau8 " <facteau8>

wrote:

 

> I think

> > this is one of the things that brings it to

> > attention in the context of this current

> > discussion. Where did Ted get this idea?

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> Ted probably never really thought that chinese medicine was an

> ancient thing passed on never-changing through the eons of

history.

> His intention (i believe) was to provide a sound introduction into

> clinical TCM as taught in present day PRC.

>

> matt

>

 

Wish i read your file before i wrote this.

I can see your issues with the text much clearer now.

Much of how the greater public and for that matter practitioners

of the medicine percieve the history of this medicine, ultimately

effects our understanding of it and even the politics surrounding our

practice of it.

perhaps the only way to remedy such a situation, is a drastic

revision of the WEb's introduction???

It is such a notorious book and certainly hypnotic in touch.

Or maybe Scheid's " in Contemorary China " or

Hsu' " transmission of chinese medicine " and Medicine in China " a

history of ideas " , should replace it as the recomended texts for

introductory students as a place to start. The Web that has no

weaver is still the best text though for an intro into the practice

of modern TCM.

what do you think?

matt

 

 

 

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> > Ken

[Guest guest]

One of my favorite books on this subject. A great overview, packed

with historical information.

 

 

On Tuesday, October 7, 2003, at 06:00 PM, facteau8 wrote:

 

> The highly readable and fascinating book " Innovation in Chinese

> Medicine " is an excellent systematic and temporally linear study

> into the history of drastic epoch shifting events in the history of

> chinese medicine.

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[Guest guest]

, " kenrose2008 "

<kenrose2008> wrote:

> Jason,

 

> Whaddya say? I've been thinking that

> the next logical step for the development

> of CHA is to stage it as an opera.

>

> Ken

 

Sounds good to me... I am sure it would never be boring... We could

travel from school to school...

 

-Jason

[Guest guest]

, " kenrose2008 "

<kenrose2008> wrote:

> Matt,

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> > Wish i read your file before i wrote this.

> >

 

 

 

 

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> Matt,

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> Since I don't know any more about it today than

> I did yesterday when I posted my comments and

> questions about it, I am not in a position to comment

> further on Web. I said what I think of it.

 

 

whoops, it meant to read; " wish i read your file before i posted my

previous post. " sorry about the confusion.

 

>

> If you're asking me what I think about other good

> books, I have to apologize for being incredibly

> backlogged and therefore unread in terms of

> the English language literature on the subject.

>

> In fact, my own reading is really miserably

> deficient. There' s just so much to read!

>

> Sorry, I can't give you more help than that.

> But I'm not really even sure what you were

> asking about.

>

I was just wondering about your own opinions concerning possible

alternatives to an introduction to chinese medicine for students or

the public for that matter. Being an author obviously interested in

the history of the medicine and with much concern over the Web as an

introductory text, i was interested in your own reading suggestions.

Nathan Sivin reports in his working bibliography for chinese

science, that there is no updated solid history of this medicine in

the english language and he refers to a chinese text written in the

1990's as the most informed to date. I can't remember the name of it

off hand, but you can check it out at his website at university of

pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

matt

 

 

 

 

 

> Ken