The Excitations and Suppressions of the Times
Locating the Emotions in the Liver in Modern Chinese Medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18929941 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Eric I Karchmer (Appalachian State University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 8-29 |
| Publication date | 2013-03-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Medicine and Psychiatry (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0165-005X • E-ISSN: 1573-076X |
| Publisher | Springer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/s11013-012-9289-4 |
| PMID | 23371371 |
| PMCID | PMC3586165 |
| OpenAlex | W1997213561 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 25 |
This paper explores how doctors of Chinese medicine have borrowed from a long history of scholarship on the problem of "constraint" to develop treatments for modern emotion-related disorders, such as depression. I argue that this combining of medical practices was made possible by a complex sequence of events. First, doctors in the 1920 and 1930s were engaged in a critical reexamination of the entire corpus of Chinese medical knowledge. Spurred by the encounter with European imperialism, the sudden rise of Japan as a new power in East Asia, and the political struggles to establish a Chinese nation state, these scholars were among the first to speculate on the possible relationship between Chinese medicine and Western medicine. Second, in the 1950 and 1960s, doctors like other intellectuals were focused on national reunification and institution building. They rejected some of the experimental claims of their predecessors to focus on identifying the key characteristics of Chinese medicine, such as the methodology of "pattern recognition and treatment determination bianzheng lunzhi." The flexibility of the new bianzheng lunzhi paradigm allowed doctors to quietly adopt innovations from their early twentieth century counterparts that they ostensibly rejected, ultimately paving the way for contemporary treatments of depression
Alternative medicine · Constraint (computer-aided design) · Depression (economics) · Flexibility (engineering) · Institution · Management · Pathology · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Traditional Chinese medicine · Chinese history and philosophy · Engineering · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Medicine
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Traditional Medicine in Modern China
Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China
Treating Emotion-Related Disorders in Japanese Traditional Medicine
Depression, Constraint, and the Liver
Diagnosis Postponed
Stories to Be Told
The Puzzle of Spermatorrhea in Republican China
The Web That Has No Weaver
Rescuing History from the Nation
Knowing Practice
In Search of Wealth and Power
Chinese Medicine in Action
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,15 |
| Citation span | 2013 - 2026 (14) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |