Styles of practice in Chinese medicine: part 1 managing plurality
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Styles of practice in Chinese medicine: part 1 managing plurality
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Lantern (2020), Scheid, Volker.
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Abstract
A great strength of Chinese medicine is its plurality. It underpins a resilience that has seen it thrive for more than 2000 years and flourish in a wide array of cultural and historical settings. Yet, individual practitioners often experience this plurality as a painful challenge and a weakness rather than a strength. Effective management is the art of emphasising the benefits of plurality while reducing its negative effects. This article is an attempt to map out a path along which such management may be developed. Part 1 surveys how Chinese medicine has tried to manage plurality throughout its history and asks to what extent these methods are still appropriate for our own times. Part 2, in the January 2021 issue of The Lantern, will explore qi physiology to flesh out the concept of meta-practice, suggested here as a solution to the problematic of plurality.
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English
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volume
17
issue
3
page start
8
page end
15
Alternative Title
Lantern
issn
1449-2717