Cultural anthropology of traditional Chinese medicine / 中西医结合学报
Journal of Integrative Medicine
;
(12): 674-7, 2008.
Article
in Chinese
| WPRIM
| ID: wpr-449250
ABSTRACT
Biological, psychological and sociological model of medicine substantializes the old model lacking the social humane attributes. The new medical model makes people take medical anthropology into research and highly evaluate traditional medical system. Cultural anthropology of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) is part of medical anthropology with three major characteristics wide research scope, specificity, and integration. It has developed its own research methods, such as field investigation, comprehensive inspection and comparison study. Cultural anthropology provides an efficient research method for TCM, and its application would further develop TCM theory and form comprehensive evaluation on TCM effects.
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Type of study:
Prognostic study
Language:
Chinese
Journal:
Journal of Integrative Medicine
Year:
2008
Type:
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