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Author Lan, Fengli, author.

Title Metaphor : the weavers of Chinese medicine / Fengli Lan ; with an introduction by Friedrich Wallner
Published Nordhausen : Traugott Bautz, 2015

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Description 1 online resource
Series Libri nigri ; 47
Libri nigri ; 47.
Contents 880-01 Cover ; Titelei ; Impressum ; Table of Contents; List of Tables; List of Illustrations; Introduction; Author's Foreword; 1 Cultural Differences between Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine ; 1.1 Chinese Medicine Going Closer to Humanities Rather than Natural Science ; 1.2 Linguistic Differences; 1.2.1 Logographic Writing, Phonetic Writing, and Thinking Modes ; 1.2.2 Chinese Medical Terminology and Western Medical Terminology; 1.2.2.1 Three Categories of Chinese Medical Terminology; 1.2.2.2 Three Categoriess of Western Medical Terminology
880-01/$1 3.1.4 Dao-Qi Monism: The Philosophical Foundation of Tian Ren He Yi and Qu Xiang Bi Lei 3.2 Three Key Processes of Qu Xiang Bi Lei: Imaging -- Analogizing -- Metaphorizing ; 3.2.1 "Xiang ": From Elephant to Imaging; 3.2.1.1 The Original Meaning of "Xiang ": Elephant; 3.2.1.2 Xiang as Reality; 3.2.1.3 The Xiang Taken: Image; 3.2.2 "Bi 比": From "Shoulder to Shoulder" to Analogizing; 3.2.2.1 Bi Lei: Analogizing; 3.2.2.2 The Ontological Presupposition of Bi Lei or Analogizing: Tian Ren He Yi ; 3.2.2.3 Chief Procedure of Bi Lei or Analogizing: Joint Application with Other Method(s)
880-02 2.2.2.2 Tian Ren He Yi as Philosophical Foundation of Dao of Chinese Medicine 2.2.3 Dong Zhongshu: Man Mirroring Heaven ; 2.2.4 Connotations of Tian Ren He Yi; 2.3 Tian Ren He Yi: The Ontological Presupposition of Chinese Medicine; 3 Qu Xiang Bi Lei: The Metaphorizing Process and the Way of Forming Metaphors in Chinese Medicine ; 3.1 Metaphor West and East: Similarities and Differences; 3.1.1 Metaphor West and East: Origins; 3.1.2 Metaphor West and East: Similarities; 3.1.3 Metaphors in Discourses of Western Science and Chinese Science: Similarities and Differences
880-02/$1 2.1.2 One (一 and 壹): The Origin of All Things2.1.3 Heaven: Tian 天; 2.1.4 Man: Ren 人; 2.1.5 Earth: Di 地; 2.1.6 Three: San, 三; 2.1.6.1 The original meaning of "San 三": Three and Many ; 2.1.6.2 Three Gives Birth to All Things; 2.1.6.3 The Importance of "the Central and Harmonious Qi"; 2.2 Tian Ren He Yi: The World View of Chinese Culture; 2.2.1 Dao : The Way of the Nature and Medicine; 2.2.2 The Book of Changes: Tian Ren He Yi as Philosophical Foundation of Dao of All Kinds in Chinese Culture ; 2.2.2.1 Viewpoint of Unity with Three Dimensions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 19, 2015)
Subject Medicine, Chinese -- Terminology
Medical sciences -- Language
Metaphor.
Medicine, Chinese.
Medicine -- Philosophy.
Cross-cultural studies.
Medicine, Chinese Traditional
Metaphor
Philosophy, Medical
Cross-Cultural Comparison
Western World
metaphor.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Holism.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Reference.
MEDICAL -- Alternative Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Atlases.
MEDICAL -- Essays.
MEDICAL -- Family & General Practice.
MEDICAL -- Holistic Medicine.
MEDICAL -- Osteopathy.
Medicine -- Philosophy
Cross-cultural studies
Medicine, Chinese
Metaphor
Genre/Form Terminology
Form Electronic book
Author Wallner, Friedrich, 1945- writer of introduction.
ISBN 9783869458168
386945816X
9783959480390
3959480393