Understanding Traditional Chinese Medicine

This volume presents texts written by Austrian and Chinese experts in the field of Traditional Chinese Medicine. The issue the authors worked on is the basic problem how to make a different system of medical thinking plausible for the Western world, especially for Western medicine. This issue is considered from different viewpoints – from the viewpoint of Western medicine that is familiar with Chinese medicine and contrariwise from the viewpoint of Chinese Medicine that is familiar with its Western counterpart and from a philosophical viewpoint. In this way both differences in the theoretical systems of Western and Chinese medicine and problems of adequate translation are profundly discussed.

The Editors: Friedrich G. Wallner is university professor for philosophy of science since 1987. His main research is focused on intercultural philosophy of science and the comparison of different scientific world views, especially TCM and Western medicine. Gertrude Kubiena is MD and M.Phil, (sinology). She presides MedChin - an association for Chinese healthcare and qualified TCM education in Austria. She focuses on making TCM understandable, facilitating teaching and learning TCM. Martin J. Jandl studied psychology, philosophy and history of arts. He lives and works in Vienna.

: Lu Guangxin: The fundamental principles of traditional Chinese medicine – Fritz Wallner/Florian Schmidsberger: How to research TCM? – Zhang Qicheng: The Cultural Characteristics of Chinese Medical Terminology and its Comparative Analysis in the Context of Western Medicine – Fritz Wallner: Comment to Zhang Qicheng’s Contribution – Gertrude Kubiena: Teaching Traditional Chinese Medicine outside China - A Challenge for Teachers – Lan Fengli: Who Translated Huang Di Nei Jing: Influence of Translator’s Subjectivities on Its Translation – Lan Fengli: The Origin and Translation of Qi, Yin-Yang and Wu Xing in TCM – Wang Xin-Yuan/Pu Gong-Ying: Lemology in Traditional Chinese Medicine: With Prevention and Treatment of SARS as A Case in Point. Inhaltsverzeichnis