Traditional European and chinese definitions of illness and medical practice

Paul U. Unschuld

pp. 197-204

in: Beatrix Pfleiderer, Gilles Bibeau (eds), Anthropologies of medicine, Wiesbaden, Vieweg+Teubner, 1991

Abstract

So-called Traditional Chinese Medicine has become, over the past years, a focus of interest of a few European and North American academicians pursuing historical, anthropological, or related research, and of a much larger number of health care providers searching for alternative or complementary perspectives to what they consider the inadequate or erraneous approaches of so-called Western medicine.