Title: Convergent But Different: Weigh of Western Medicine by the Chinese School of Converged Medicine in the Late Qing Dynasty
Abstract: Since the mid-19 th century,Western medical knowledge has been introduced into China on a large scale by Protestant missionaries. Western medicine the missionaries promoted was a cultural system integrating knowledge,methods,notions and philosophical thoughts. In absorbing Western medical knowledge,Chinese scholars accepted some part of the knowledge of human anatomy in Western medicine and criticized the cognitive approach and principle which were based on anatomy as well as the mechanistic thoughts of the human body. The natural theology those missionaries endeavored to advocate was neglected or abolished by Chinese scholars. Therefore,the result of Eastern progression of Western medicine is that Eastern and Western medicine are convergent but still different.The weigh of Western medicine by the Chinese School of Converged Medicine is an interesting phenomenon in cross-cultural communication. It is much easier for one culture to accept the intellectual contents of foreign cultures,while the methodical and ideological traits deeply rooted in that culture are difficult to be accepted,though sometimes they are even more important.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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