Integrating East Asian Medicine into Contemporary Healthcare东亚医学与现代卫生保健的整合
- 作者
- 出版社 Elsevier Medicine
- 出版时间 2011年10月 第1版
- ISBN 9780702030215
- 定价 606.80
内容简介
TraditionalEastAsianhealthcaresystemshavemovedrapidlyfromthefringesofhealthcaresystemsintheWesttowardsthecentreoverthepast50years.Thischangeofstatusfortraditionalmedicinespresentstheirpractitionerswithbothopportunitiesandchallengesasthefocusshiftsfromoneofoppositiontowardsoneofintegrationintobiomedicallydominatedhealthcaresystems."IntegratingEastAsianMedicineintoContemporaryHealthcare"examinestheopportunitiesandchallengesofintegratingEastAsianmedicineintoWesternhealthcaresystemsfromaninterdisciplinaryperspective.VolkerScheidandHughMacPhersonbringtogethercontributionsfromacknowledgedexpertsfromanumberofdifferentdisciplines-includingclinicalresearchers,ChineseMedicinepractitioners,historians,medicalanthropologists,expertsinthesocialstudiesofscience,technologyandmedicine-toexamineanddebatetheimpactoftheevidence-basedmedicinemovementontheongoingmodernizationofEastAsianmedicines.Thisbookconsidersthefollowingquestions:Whatarethevalues,goalsandethicsimplicitwithintraditionalEastAsianmedicalpractices?WhatclaimstoeffectivenessandsafetyaremadebyEastAsianmedicalpractices?Whatisatstakeinsubjectingthesemedicalpracticestobiomedicalmodelsofevaluation?Whatconstitutesbestpractice?Howisittobedefinedandmeasured?WhataretheideologiesandpoliticsbehindtheprocessofintegrationofEastAsianmedicalpracticesintomodernhealthcaresystems?Andwhatcanwelearnfromavarietyofmodelsofintegrationintocontemporaryhealthcare?
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