East meets West: current issues relevant to integrating Chinese medicine

Gaster, Barak; Lee, Sum Ping

doi:10.1186/1749-8546-7-20

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“…However, traditional Chinese medicine and its practitioners have not been recognised or meet with scepticism in the West, and Hessler's attitude above epitomises this. As Wong et al (2012: 2) note, "Chinese medical diagnostics and therapeutics remain obscure to most Western medicine practitioners, partly because of different terminology and concepts. Although important interpretative and translational work has been in progress, a great deal remains to be done" (2).…”

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The Cultural Unconscious of Peter Hessler as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in River Town

Ming,

Pillai,

Vengadasamy

2024

IJAPS

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This article investigates the influence of the Peace Corps’ salient ideology in Peter Hessler’s works focusing on modern China. As a volunteer of the third cohort of the Peace Corps in China, Hessler served in Sichuan province from 1996 to 1998. We argue that the ideological overtones of the Peace Corps programme significantly influence his representation of China and use his memoir River Town as an example. Applying the concepts of the cultural unconscious by Ming Dong Gu, as well as decoloniality, colonial matrix of power and border thinking by Walter Mignolo and Catherine Walsh, we show how Hessler’s various actions in the memoir match the mission of the Peace Corps consciously and unconsciously. However, we also show that the narrative emits decoloniality through border thinking as Hessler eventually understands China and its different political culture and proceeds to recognise the shortcomings of American politics. While many enthusiasts of Hessler perceive his writings as challenging the dominant negative view of China in the Western mainstream media, we conclude that, from the perspective of the cultural unconscious, the Peace Corps volunteer’s objective to spread American values far outweighed the Peace Corps’ other mission of achieving a better understanding of other peoples on the part of the Americans.

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The Cultural Unconscious of Peter Hessler as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in River Town

Ming,

Pillai,

Vengadasamy

2024

IJAPS

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“…Traditional Chinese Medicine theory is still based on classics such as the Huangdi Nei Jing, also known as the Yellow Emperor`s Inner Canon, that date back more than 2,000 years. Current CM has largely been adapted to modern clinical practices, but the language of Traditional Chinese Medicine therapies and practice has barely changed [3]. Most of these classics are written in the Chinese language, which is difficult to read and is filled with a lot of Chinese medicine jargon, making it difficult for participating doctors to understand what these classics are saying.…”

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Analysis of the Developmental Status of "Western Medicine Learning Chinese Medicine" Training: Taking Changchun Secondary Public Hospital as an Example

2023

medcm

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Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a medical science and cultural heritage empirically applied and reserved by Chinese people for thousands of years. The fact that TCM has been used in China for thousands of years shows the value and reason why it must exist. Although TCM has been or is being questioned, there is no doubt about its importance in terms of efficacy. The education of "Western medicine practitioners learning Chinese medicine" is a mode of continuing medical education with Chinese characteristics, and it is one of the historically proven and effective ways to cultivate talents in the integration of Chinese and Western medicines, which has a great role to play in promoting the development of the cause of Chinese medicine and the discipline of integration of Chinese and Western medicines in China. The purpose is to let the western medicine doctors also have a certain ability to serve Chinese medicine. In this paper, through the questionnaire survey on the second-level public hospitals in Changchun, we have made a preliminary analysis of the current situation of the training activities of "Western doctors learning Chinese medicine", understood the difficulties faced by the current training activities, and thought about how to solve these difficulties. Only if the education of "Western doctors learning Chinese medicine" is more standardized, practical and professionalized can we train more medical talents with the highest level of sincerity and expertise in learning Chinese and Western medicine for the country. Concept and Background of "Western Medicine Practitioners Learning Chinese Medicine""Western medicine practitioners learning Chinese medicine" means that clinicians can attend Chinese medicine-related training, and through a series of classroom lectures or skills training, they will be able to provide a certain degree of Chinese medicine services. Traditional Chinese Medicine encompasses a variety of therapies including Chinese herbal medicine, acupuncture, Qigong, and physical therapy such as massage and Gua Sha (scraping). Due to its unique philosophy and treatment characteristics, Traditional Chinese Medicine was identified as one of the advanced medical sciences until the 17th century [1]. As early as 1953, expert proposed that the first of China's three major contributions to the world was Chinese medicine. A year later, the call for "Western medicine to learn MEDS Chinese Medicine (2023) Clausius Scientific Press, Canada

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“…Although PSC have the habit of using complementary and alternative medicine, TCM is still regarded as a profession that requires additional learning [ 22 ]. The theory of TCM, such as Qi and meridians, presents some challenges to its popularization in PSC [ 64 ]. Only some universities in Portugal, Brazil, and Mozambique offer relevant courses [ 10 ].…”

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The internationalization of TCM towards Portuguese-speaking countries

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With the increasing demand for traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in Portuguese-speaking countries (PSC), local regulatory systems and relevant legislation are still insufficient and lagging, even blank in some of them. This kind of unbalanced pace either makes users of TCM exposed in potential risk or eventually obstructs the long-term development of TCM in PSC. Despite existing tremendous studies on the internationalization of TCM, there are few studies specific to PSC. Thus, by a comprehensive desk review and typical case study, this article aims to summarize current situation of TCM in PSC by a cross-regional comparison, to identify various critical challenges, and further to provide an insightful reference to impel the development of TCM in PSC.

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East meets West: current issues relevant to integrating Chinese medicine

Cited by 8 publications

References 27 publications

The Cultural Unconscious of Peter Hessler as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in River Town

The Cultural Unconscious of Peter Hessler as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in River Town

Analysis of the Developmental Status of "Western Medicine Learning Chinese Medicine" Training: Taking Changchun Secondary Public Hospital as an Example

The internationalization of TCM towards Portuguese-speaking countries

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