The Ams/Paterson Lecture: Becoming Alternative? Modern Transformations of Chinese Medicine in China and in the United States (2011)
Furth, Charlotte (Author)
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Volume: 28, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 5-41
Becoming Alternative offers an overview of the transformations of Chinese medicine at home and abroad since the mid-19th century. After coming into contact with biomedicine, China's indigenous medicine was redefined in terms of national culture and history on the one hand, and a competitive alternative science on the other. Reimagined in terms of scientific syncretism in the PRC, and embraced as a counter-cultural alternative to bio-medicine in the United States, the medicine we call Chinese today emerges as a pluralistic system with global reach involving complex accommodations with local medical cultures and institutions both at home and abroad. Résumé. Becoming Alternative (La voie alternative) offre un aperçu des transformations de la médecine chinoise depuis le milieu du 19e siècle, et cela tant au pays qu'à l'étranger. Après avoir pris contact avec la biomédecine, la médecine traditionnelle chinoise s'est redéfinie, à la fois comme manifestation nationale culturelle et historique et comme une intéressante alternative concurrentielle à la médecine dite scientifique. Ré-imaginée sous l'angle d'une science syncrétiste dans la République populaire de Chine, et adoptée aux États-Unis comme une alternative contre-culturelle à la biomédecine, la médecine chinoise d'aujourd'hui apparaît comme un système pluraliste mettant partout en jeu des accommodements complexes avec les cultures et institutions locales.
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