Introduction to English Terminology of Chinese Medicine

[Guest guest]

Someone at the CHA conference metnioned to me that the lack of a

cross-reference index in wiseman's PD for other terminologies more

commonly used prevented the user from accessing much of the

information in that text. I have heard a similar complaint before

from quite a few people who told me that wiseman is missing a lot of

terms. Of course, that is incorrect. Wiseman is far more complete

than any other dictionary and includes all the commonly used terms.

He is also not to fault fro failing to cross refrence as it is the

other translators in the field who have failed to provide their own

glossaries. If bensky or chen or maciocia only gloss 300 terms, how

is wiseman supposed to write a cross reference for the other 5700

terms he glosses. In fact, requests have been made to the other

translators to provide such a glossary in order to create exactly

such a cross referenced list. As I understand it, no such glossary

has yet to be submitted other than wisemans.

 

Be that as it may, there still remains the problem of how to use the

existing glossary in light of these issues. Some of you may not be

familar with Wisemans's Introduction to English Terminology of

. This text contains many entries from the PD, but

organized by topics like patterns and treatment principles. This

way, one can look for terms in narrower categories than a 6000 entry

alphabetical listing. I would also remind people that while most new

books are NOT written in wisemanese, pretty much all serious

translations are. Thus, deciding to eschew wiseman terminology books

is a conscious decison to dumb down one's education.

 

[Guest guest]

This issue is moot, because at the very least any other English

language writer should provide access to pinyin and if possible Chinese

characters so that readers can cross-reference characters or pinyin to

the Wiseman dictionary or any other text. Whenever I browse different

e-mail lists or written texts discussing Chinese medicine, I am often

perplexed at some of the term choices. For example, on one e-mail

list, a group of people were discussing EPI's. Finally someone

explained that EPI is 'external pernicious influence'. I haven't a

clue what that is, without the pinyin or Chinese characters. . .

perhaps they are talking about wai gan/external contractions?

 

Some books are beginning to provide cross-referencing glossaries, such

as John Chen's new Materia Medica, so there is a trend in that

direction. The new book " Management of Cancer with "

also attempts to do the same.

 

 

On Jun 21, 2004, at 4:52 PM, wrote:

 

> Someone at the CHA conference metnioned to me that the lack of a

> cross-reference index in wiseman's PD for other terminologies more

> commonly used prevented the user from accessing much of the

> information in that text. I have heard a similar complaint before

> from quite a few people who told me that wiseman is missing a lot of

> terms. Of course, that is incorrect. Wiseman is far more complete

> than any other dictionary and includes all the commonly used terms.

[Guest guest]

, " " <zrosenbe@s...>

wrote:

 

>

> Some books are beginning to provide cross-referencing glossaries, such

> as John Chen's new Materia Medica, so there is a trend in that

> direction.

 

 

We'll see. John glosses only about 180 terms, I think. However, his glossary

does solve

the problem of determining what the wiseman cross-reference term is for the most

common

terms used in the field. since the glossary is available as a free PDf file, it

is an easy

solution to the most immediate dilemma for some.

 

[Guest guest]

At 5:04 PM -0700 6/21/04, wrote:

>The new book " Management of Cancer with " ...

--

Z'ev,

 

I can't find this book. Please would you give author, publisher, or

isbn for this.

 

tia

 

Rory

--

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Hi Rory

 

This is the book:

 

Management of Cancer with Traditional

Author: Li Peiwen, Mao Shuzhang, Bao Liling, Giovanni Maciocia

Publisher: Donica Publishing

Pub. 01 August, 2003

Edition:

Format: Hardcover

ISBN: 1901149048

List Price: 57.53 EUR

 

http://www.bestbookdeal.com/book/compare/1901149048

 

Best wishes

 

Alwin

 

--- Rory Kerr <rorykerr@o...> wrote:

> At 5:04 PM -0700 6/21/04, wrote:

> >The new book " Management of Cancer with " ...

> --

> Z'ev,

>

> I can't find this book. Please would you give author, publisher, or

> isbn for this.

>

> tia

>

> Rory

> --

>

>

>