Guest guest Posted December 23, 2003 Report Share Posted December 23, 2003 I would suggest that that the classification posted by Bob Felt can also be broken down further by Hsu's classes of secret, personal and consensual. , " Robert L. Felt " <bob@p...> wrote: > > 1. Adherence to and belief in only traditional East Asian concepts. > Complete rejection of the biomedical (scientific) model. > > 2. Adherence to and belief in traditional East Asian concepts, but with a > limited utilization of biomedical concepts. > > 3. An interweaving of biomedical and traditional concepts. > > 4. Adherence to and belief in biomedical concepts, with the subsuming of > traditional concepts where then can be fit within the biomedical model. > > 5. Adherence to and belief in only biomedical concepts with complete > rejection of traditional models. > In class three I would place US/PRC TCM because of the integration of > biomedical ideas in physiology and pathology. The extent to which concepts > that depend on instrumentation (e.g blood pressure) rather than clinical > observation, or biomedical labelling (diabetes as opposed to wasting and > thirsting), describes the difference between " TCM " and " integrated > medicine. " I would suggest that TCM ranges from class 2 to class 4, depending on who's practicing it. for example, many visitors to cheng du TCM school would describe it in terms more akin to number 2 above. Where would zhang xi chun fit? 2 or 3? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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