Ethical Consideration of Chinese Ancient Disasters and Diseases: Centered on the Basic Principles of Public Health Ethics / 中国医学伦理学

The ethical problems in the prevention and control of public disasters and epidemics have attracted more and more attention. Briefly combed the disaster and epidemic events in ancient China. From the view of the several basic principles of public health ethics, this paper took four aspects of the distribution of medical and health resources for epidemic diseases, the isolation prevention and control, the skeleton convergence and the protection of public health conditions as examples, to dialectically treat the measures taken by ancient people to deal with disasters and epidemics and explore some enlightenment of public health ethics in ancient Chinese disasters and epidemics. The measures of epidemic prevention and disaster resistance in ancient China have their own formation and development process. Although the historical limitations are insurmountable, interpreting it by using the basic principles of public health ethics will help us understand the development process of epidemic prevention and control, promote the development of medical archaeology, and provide some reference for the construction of public health undertakings today.

Investigation on the exchange of incense and medicine along the Silk Road from the perspective of medical archaeology / 西安交通大学学报(医学版)

From the perspective of medical archaeology, on the basis of sorting out the relevant archaeological findings, and starting from the diachronic nature of spice exchange, this paper divides the development of ancient Chinese fragrant drugs into the occurrence period (pre Qin), the development period (Qin and Han dynasties), the maturity period (Wei, Jin and Tang dynasties), the prosperity period (Song and Yuan dynasties), and the popularity period (Ming and Qing dynasties). The Silk Road has played a vital role in promoting the exchange of fragrant medicine culture. Since the opening of the Silk Road in the Han Dynasty, fragrant drugs from Southeast Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and the east coast of the Mediterranean Sea have been imported into China. The exchange of fragrant medicine culture coincides with the development trend of the Silk Road. This kind of exchange has a two-way nature. While foreign fragrant drugs are continuously imported into China, Chinese medical concepts and technologies are also promoted abroad. The impact of the exchange has many effects. It has not only promoted the progress of medicine, but also promoted the friendly exchanges between China and foreign countries and the mutual dissemination of ideas and cultures, and greatly enriched the material and cultural life of the people of all countries.

Interpretation of the development of the pre-Qin health preservation concept from the perspective of medical archaeology / 西安交通大学学报(医学版)

Health and longevity are the eternal themes of human pursuit. The pre-Qin period was the beginning of the development of traditional health preservation. Combined with archaeological findings and relevant literature and materials, this paper summarizes the behaviors and phenomena related to health preservation in the pre-Qin period from the three aspects, namely, exercise, diet, and environment and personal health. Through long-term investigation from the perspective of medical archaeology, the development of pre-Qin health concept can be roughly divided into three stages: prehistoric period; Xia, Shang, Western Zhou period; and Eastern Zhou dynasties. It is mainly manifested as from unconsciousness to consciousness and from simple experience accumulation stage to the exploration and summary of theory. It is closely related to the improvement of social productivity and the development of medicine and ancient philosophy, which is also an important feature and development law in the accumulation of Chinese traditional health culture. Judging from medical archaeology, the development of health preservation concept in the pre-Qin period is of great benefit for people to understand the origin of health preservation and its early development, correctly view health preservation, improve the concept of health preservation, promote the formation of a good lifestyle, and promote the development of public health undertakings.