Lexington Books
Pages: 378
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-3887-9 • Hardback • May 2017 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-1-4985-3888-6 • eBook • May 2017 • $135.50 • (£105.00)
Keekok Lee is honorary research professor at Manchester University.
Chapter One: Introduction
Chapter Two: Bibliographical Justification and Clarification of the Main Texts Selected
Chapter Three: Ontology: Qi and Its Role in the Lattice of Inter-weaving Key Concepts
Chapter Four: Metaphysics: The Laozi and the Lattice of Inter-weaving Key Concepts
Chapter Five: The Zhouyi/Yi: Meanings and Significance
Chapter Six: The Yi: Yin Qi, Yang Qi, Yinyang and the Yao-gua Model
Chapter Seven: Yinyang-Wuxing
Chapter Eight: Process Philosophy/Ontology
Chapter Nine: Modes of Thinking
Chapter Ten: Wholism in Chinese Terms
Chapter Eleven: Implications of Wholism/Wholism for Science/Science, Methodology and Ontology
Chapter Twelve: Conclusion
With this volume, Lee (Manchester Univ., UK) picks up where her earlier study, The Philosophical Foundations of Medicine (CH, Jun'12, 49-5598), left off, providing a chiefly descriptive outline of the key philosophical concepts found in Classical Chinese Medicine (CCM). A third companion volume, detailing the implications of those concepts for the development of CCM, is described as forthcoming. Western, “scientific” medicine and CCM are founded in different philosophical/ontological worldviews and, Lee insists, as distinct paradigms that are subject to different standards of evaluation. In the present work, she focuses on an interpretation of central texts and concepts of the Daojia tradition that underlie CCM (such as Qi, Ziran, Zhouyi, and Yinyang) and the metaphysical and epistemological dimensions of the modes of thought. Captivatingly, Lee not only suggests that there is much for Western medicine to learn from CCM, but she envisions a broader convergence in the future “with modern science moving toward the Chinese model based on process-ontology, non-linearity and Wholism.” Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above; researchers and faculty.
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