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Journal of Chinese Integrative Medicine ›› 2008, Vol. 6 ›› Issue (7): 674-677.doi: 10.3736/jcim20080703

Special Issue: Traditional Chinese Medicine

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Cultural anthropology of traditional Chinese medicine

Xia Wan1, Jian-ping Liu2(), Yan-ke Ai2, Liu-ji Li2   

  1. 1. Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, School of Basic Medicine, Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100005, China
    2. Centre for Evidence-Based Chinese Medicine, Beijing University of Chinese Medicine, Beijing 100029, China
  • Received:2008-01-26 Online:2008-07-20 Published:2008-07-15
  • Contact: LIU Jian-ping E-mail:jianping_l@hotmail.com

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.

Key words: culture, anthropology, traditional Chinese medicine, humanities

CLC Number: 

  • R2-05
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