Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States

In Search of Spiritual Meaning and Ultimate Health

AvEmily S. Wu

Inbunden, Engelska, 2013

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Traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) originated from the traditional medical system in the Chinese civilization, with influences from the Daoist and Chinese folk traditions in bodily cultivation and longevity techniques. In the past few decades, TCM has become one of the leading alternative medical systems in the United States. This book demonstrates the fluidity of a medical ideological system with a rich history of methodological development and internal theoretical conflicts, continuing to transform in our postmodern world where people and ideas transcend geographic, ethnic, and linguistic limitations. The unique historical trajectories and cultural dynamics of the American society are critical nutrients for the localization of TCM, while the constant traffic of travelers and immigrants foster the globalizing tendency of TCM. The practitioners in this book represent an incredible range of clinical applications, personal styles, theoretical rationalizations, and business models. What really unifies all these practitioners is not their specific practices but the goal of these practices. The shared goal is to strive for health, not just health in terms of the lack of illness but the ultimate health of achieving perfect balance in every aspect of the being of a person—physically, mentally, spiritually, and energetically.

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Utgivningsdatum:2013-06-06
Mått:162 x 233 x 24 mm
Vikt:503 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:244
Förlag:Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN:9780739173664

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Emily S. Wu is a college instructor in the San Francisco Bay area and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in Asian religions and cultures. Her current research primarily focuses on Chinese and Chinese American religious practices and beliefs that intersect with medicine, healing, and understandings of the human body.

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Traditional Chinese Medicine in the United States is an insightful and captivating ethnography of Chinese medicine practitioners in the San Francisco Bay area, one that reveals their socialization as students and experiences as clinicians into a world where East meets West perhaps more so than in any place in the United States. Religious studies scholar Emily S. Wu has written a masterful cultural interpretive or phenomenological examination of both Asian American and European American practitioners who have sought to adapt the psychic, spiritual, cultural, and environmental insights of an ancient medical tradition to a post-modern society where many people have sought meaningful alternatives or complements to Western biomedicine which all too still remains reductionist in its treatment of illness and the healing of the body politic. Her book makes an important contribution to the study of medical pluralism and complementary and alternative medical systems in American society.

Innehållsförteckning

PrefacePersonal BeginningIntroductionChapter 1: ContextualizationChapter 2: History of Local TCMChapter 3: Medical Training and Identity FormationChapter 4: TCM Healers in the Chinese CommunityChapter 5: TCM as Complementary MedicineChapter 6: TCM as Alternative MedicineChapter 7: Creating a Space for Psychic HealingChapter 8: Going to the Culturally AuthenticChapter 9: Environmentalism and Lifestyle ChangesChapter 10: The Happenings in an Acupuncture ClinicChapter 11: The Embodied Spirituality of QiChapter 12: Ideal Body and the Concept of HealthChapter 13: Concluding Analysis