Conversion and transformation: the historical destiny of Chinese medicine and Western medicine classics.
- Author:
Xiao LIU
1
,
2
Author Information
1. Party Committee Propaganda Department, Nanjing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanjing. liuxiao_1015@
2. com
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- MeSH:
Integrative Medicine;
Medicine, Chinese Traditional;
methods
- From:
Chinese Journal of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine
2012;32(11):1458-1460
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Chinese medicine (CM) and Western Medicine (WM) show different traces in the inheritance and innovation. The great distinguished physicians in the history of CM and WM, and eternal classic works have experienced similar fates in the river of the history, but they have manifested the same origins and different branches. In this paper, I hold that it is understandable that CM classics and WM classics have experienced different historical destinies from different disciplinary attributes. Their methodological origins could be found from different ideological and cultural bases. They construct necessary tension of mutual reference and bridging from future development of a medical community.
