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Curved Spine: The Shape of Spine in Taoist Body Diagrams and Its Influence on Medical Body Diagrams 弯曲的脊柱道教人体图中的脊柱形状及其对医学人体图的影响

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-08-08 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000111

Xinyu Zhang, Shujian Zhang

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The “Ukiyo” of Moxibustion Reflected in the Ukiyo-e 浮世绘中反映的艾灸 "浮世"

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000105

Shan Jiang

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Perceptions and Controversies on Cholera in Traditional Chinese Medicine Field in Late Qing Dynasty 晚清中医界对霍乱的认识与争议

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-22 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000104

Shiqiang Guo, Haohuan WU, Yinghua Wu

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Feasibility and Challenges of Interactive AI for Traditional Chinese Medicine: An Example of ChatGPT 交互式人工智能用于传统中医的可行性与挑战：以 ChatGPT 为例

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-17 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000103

Qi Kong, Liming Chen, Jingyi Yao, Chao Ding, Peihao Yin

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Case Records as Medical Stories: Narrating Medicine in Song-Dynasty China: A Song-dynasty Doctor’s Narration of His own Medicine – Xu Shuwei (1080-1154) 作为医学故事的病例记录：宋代中国的医学叙事：宋代医生对自己医术的叙述 - 徐树伟（1080-1154）

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000101

Asaf Goldschmidt

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The Value of Traditional Medicine should not be Underestimated—Traditional Chinese Medicine in Treatment of Autoimmune Diseases 传统医学的价值不容低估--传统中医药在自身免疫性疾病治疗中的应用

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-04-03 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000102

Yurii O Novikov, Anait P. Akopyan

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Introducing Traditional Chinese Medicine New Medicine Creation Team led by Professor Zhang Tong 张彤教授带领的中医新药创制团队介绍

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-03-01 DOI: 10.1097/01.mc9.0001011516.82519.ba

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An Interview with Peter Deadman – Acupuncture Pioneer and Founder of the Journal of Chinese Medicine (UK) 针灸先驱、《中医杂志》（英国）创始人彼得-德德曼访谈录

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000095

Ioannis Solos, Charles Buck, Peter Deadman

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William Morris, Establishing the Foundation for the Advancement of TCM in the US 威廉-莫里斯，建立美国中医药发展基金会

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000097

Ioannis Solos, Charles Buck, William Morris

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A Conversation with a Key Architect of Modern TCM in the West- Professor Ted Kaptchuk 对话西方现代中医药的重要奠基人--泰德-卡普丘克（Ted Kaptchuk）教授

Chinese Medicine and Culture Pub Date : 2024-01-23 DOI: 10.1097/mc9.0000000000000096

Ioannis Solos, Charles Buck, Ted Kaptchuk

{"title":"A Conversation with a Key Architect of Modern TCM in the West- Professor Ted Kaptchuk","authors":"Ioannis Solos, Charles Buck, Ted Kaptchuk","doi":"10.1097/mc9.0000000000000096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1097/mc9.0000000000000096","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 \u0000 The interview was conducted on November 20, 2022 by Ioannis Solos and Charles Buck. Ted Kaptchuk (泰开阳) is a Professor of Medicine and a Professor of Global Health & Social Medicine at Harvard Medical School. In 1975, he graduated from the Macau Institute of Chinese Medicine, Macau, China. After returning to the West, Ted taught Chinese medicine throughout the States, Europe, Latin America, and Australia. Ted's book, The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine is a groundbreaking explanation of East Asian medicine that continues to shape the discourse of the Chinese medicine profession in the West and has been translated into 13 languages. In 1990, Ted was recruited in Harvard Medical School to help research Chinese medicine. After encountering high placebo responses in multiple acupuncture clinical trials, Ted decided to switch his career to primarily studying placebo. He has published over 300 peer-reviewed articles. He has been awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society of Acupuncture Research (2015), the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Interdisciplinary Placebo Studies (2021), and the William Silen Lifetime Achievement Award in Mentoring from Harvard Medical School (2022).\u0000","PeriodicalId":56671,"journal":{"name":"Chinese Medicine and Culture","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139604431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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