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Article: Not very traditional, nor exactly Chinese, so what kind of medicine is it? TCM's discourse on menopause and its implications for practice, teaching, and research.(Textbooks of contemporary Chinese medicine)
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- The Journal of Chinese Medicine
- Article date:
- October 1, 2006
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Abstract
Textbooks of contemporary Chinese medicine regularly claim that the Chinese medical tradition makes available treatment strategies for biomedically defined disorders and that these treatment strategies are rooted in traditional doctrine and thousands of years of experience. The present article shows that at least for the case of menopausal syndrome this claim is plainly untrue. Chinese treatment strategies for menopausal syndrome emerged in the early 1960s as part of ongoing efforts to modernise Chinese medicine. This process involved translation of the biomedical understanding of menopause as a problem of hormone deficiency into the Chinese medical ...