Important Concepts in Chinese Philosophy and Chinese Medicine
Qi
Yin and Yang
Five Phases
Body and Spirit or Vitality
CHAPTER 1 Ancient Civilization and Origin of Medical Knowledge (Remote Ages-500 B.C.)
Section 1 Beginning of the Ancient Chinese Civilization
Section 2 Traces of Ancient Culture in the Initial Period of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Section 3 The Origin of Fundamental Concepts of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Section 4 Foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Hygiene, Environment, Disease, Prevention, Medication and Treatment
Section 5 Philosophy in Ancient Times: Its Formation and Development
Section 6 The Territory and Humanistic Characteristics of the Birth of Traditional Chinese Medicine
CHAPTER 2 Establishment of the Traditional Chinese Medical System (475 B.C.-265 A.D.)
Section 1 Social Background and Development of Medicine
Section2 Establishing Unique Philosophical System—Unearthed Cultural Relics Evidence
Section 3 Unearthed Medical Relics from the Han Dynasty (206 B.C.-220 A.D.)
Section 4 The Establishment of the Theoretical Framework of Chinese Medicine: The Contents and Significance of the Four TCM Classics
Section 5 Principles, Methods, Formulas, and Medicinals and Pattern Differentiation and Treatment
Section 6 Well-known Practitioners and Historical Figures
CHAPTER 3 Prosperity of Chinese Medicine (From the Two Jin Dynasties to the Five Dynasties, 265-960 A.D.)
Section 1 Unprecedented Development of the Chinese Civilization
Section 2 A Golden Age of Compiling Ancient Medical Books
Section 3 Publication of Comprehensive Monographs on TCM Formulas and Their Contributions
Section 4 Development of Pharmacology
Section 5 Development of Acupuncture and Moxibustion
Section 6 Classification and Development of Clinical Specialties
Section 7 Standardization of Medical Education and Medical Administration
Section 8 Medical Exchange between China and Other Countries
CHAPTER 4 Outstanding Achievements in Various Medical Specialties and Innovations by TCM Physicians of the Jin and Yuan Dynasties (From the Song Dynasty to Yuan Dynasty, 960-1368 A.D.)
Section 1 Social Stability and Reform
Section 2 Progress of Medical Administration
Section 3 Editing, Compilation and Publication of Medical Monographs
Section 4 Achievements and Influences of the Study of Chinese Materia Medica
Section 5 Prominent Achievements of Different Medical Branches
Section 6 Medical Innovations in the Jin and Yuan Dynasties (1115-1368 A.D.)
Section 7 Medical Exchanges between China and Other Countries
CHAPTER 5 The Flourishing of Medicine and Continual Spread and Development of Western Medicine in China from the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644 A.D.) to the Outbreak of the First Opium War (1840 A.D.)
Section 1 Social Change and Development of Science and Technology
Section 2 Development of Pharmacology and Chinese Medical Formulas during the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911 A.D.)
Section 3 Innovations and Achievements of Clinical Medicine in the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911 A.D.)
Section 4 Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases, the Invention of Variolation and Spread of Vaccination into China
Section 5 Founding and Flourishing of Warm Disease Theory
Section 6 Research on Anatomy in the Period of Continued Spread of Western Science in China
Section 7 Comprehensive Medical Works, Classical Annotation and Academic Associations
Section 8 Spread of Western Science into China and Research on Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine
CHAPTER 6 Interchange and Confict Between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine (Opium War-People’s Republic of China, 1840-1949 A.D.)
Section 1 Social Background of Modern China and the Development of Medicine
Section 2 Headway of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Section 3 Development of Western Medicine in China
Section 4 Debates over Chinese and Western Medicine
Section 5 The First Movement for the “Scientifization of Chinese Medicine”
Section 6 Abolishment and Anti-abolishment
CHAPTER 7 Rebirth and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine and Its International Dissemination (After the Founding of the People’s Republic of China, 1949 A.D.- )
Section 1 Strong National Support for Traditional Chinese Medicine
Section 2 Prosperity and Development of Traditional Chinese Medicine
Section 3 Further Research on Integrative Chinese and Western Medicine
Section 4 Internationalization of Traditional Chinese Medicine