History of the Thought of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Author: Li Jingwei
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Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: The compilation of A History of the Thought of Traditional Chinese Medicine was necessary for the construction and development of the discipline of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Throughout history, Chinese medical practitioners, healthcare administrators, and leaders, when describing or recording their academic achievements and management systems, almost always focused on practical theories, techniques, or institutional functions, rarely discussing their methods of thinking, epistemology, or methodology. The historical details that Chinese scholars have paid attention to are indeed important, yet they largely overlook philosophical thoughts and rational-level reflections, which is undoubtedly a significant shortcoming. It is precisely this shortcoming that has created great difficulties for us to study A History of the Thought of Traditional Chinese Medicine today. If the authors wish to provide a philosophical summary of the development of Traditional Chinese Medicine, they must seek the threads or traces of its methods of thinking from the self-narratives, writings, academic theories of