Books in the Culture and Knowledge series

Presents papers by experts in Chinese Medicine of different countries. In this title, the research presented includes perspectives of philosophy of science, genesis of fundamental theories, modern research, and clinical practice in profound approaches. It aims to make Chinese Medicine understandable for European cultural and scientific discourse.

Chinese Medicine and Intercultural Philosophy

The authors discuss concepts of health and disease in Chinese medicine, new interpretative techniques in psychotherapy, concepts of culture and the notion of risk, Brecht's and Wallner's Verfremdung and Wallner's Constructive Realism compared to Glasersfeld's Radical Constructivism. The book shows the rare situation of philosophy becoming concrete.

Focuses on topics of Intercultural Philosophy. This book offers impulses and important contributions to all discourses, discussions and researches on (other) cultures.

The book contains the latest results of the research on the foundations of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM), done by Professor Wallner from Vienna and a group of leading TCM specialists. The research on TCM does not deal with single medical concepts, but concentrates on its foundations, the structure and form of this medical science. It discusses the relation of TCM and Western Medicine, a concept of science, their peculiarities and differences, the problems of a thoughtless mixture. The book mainly presents five lectures by Professor Wallner about his latest research on the structure of TCM. Additionally, the book contains contributions from TCM specialists as Zhang Weibo, Lan Feng-Li, and Günter Gunia.

Chinese Medicine is an outstanding scientific proposition system with its own structural, methodological and theoretical prerequisites flowing into the specific practices that make Chinese Medicine popular in the Western world. This title gives interesting insights into the discussions on present developments in Chinese Medicine research.

Reveals the essence of philosophy of Chinese language, classical Chinese philosophy and Chinese medicine within the context of a global, multicultural background.

The book outlines a methodology that is adequate for research on Classical Chinese Medicine and discusses Evidence-Based Acupuncture and Mechanistic Studies of Acupuncture, the evolution of acupuncture, classical texts, clinical trials, women's diseases, lifestyle-related diseases, the placebo effect, and Baomai and Baoluo.

Sowohl der hochproblematische objektivistische als auch der erkenntnisnegierende instrumentalistische Anspruch im Selbstverständnis naturwissenschaftlich Handelnder stiften eine zutiefst verwirrende und unklare Situation. Genau hier setzt die Wissenschaftstheorie des Konstruktiven Realismus mit ihrem Programm einer epistemologischen Therapie an und bietet professionelle Hilfestellung beim Aufbau von Verständigungsbrücken zwischen disziplinärem Forschungshandeln und der lebensweltlichen Handlungsgrundlage aus dem soziokulturellen Voraussetzungskontext. Mit einer systematischen Diskussion der konstruktiv-realistischen Intention und Methodik garantiert dieses Buch einen optimalen Einblick in die methodologische Spezifik dieser Wissenschaftstherapie.