An Intellectual History of Traditional Chinese Medicine

Compilation of An Intellectual History of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the need of subject construction and development of traditional Chinese medicine.

When narrating or recording academic success and management system, generations of Chinese medical scientist, medicine&health regulators and leaders almost all focused on concrete theory, technique or systematic function, and rarely touched upon their thinking method, epistemology and methodology contents.

Although it was certainly important of Chinese scholars to pay close attention to these historical facts gist, it was regretful defect to neglect philosophical philosophy and thought at rational level.

This defect lead to great difficulties in studying and discussing Intellectual History of Traditional Chinese Medicine.

To make summary of Chinese medicine development at philosophy level, authors have to seek between the lines for the venation or traces of thought of medicine&health regulators and leaders in previous generations, from their autobiography, works, academic theory, or medical achievement, performance and outcome, management system, etc narrated by others, and then analyze & discuss their epistemology and methodology combining trend of thought in philosophy at that time.