CM* 532 - Chinese History and Culture III

Credit(s): 1.50

This course explores key concepts and structures of Chinese medicine within the context of larger historical and cultural changes. Students will learn about major medical classics and the philosophical antecedents their authors used to frame their understanding, and how these influenced the development of medical theory. This course considers changes in clinical practice as may be determined and reconstructed through archaeology and inferred textual reference. Students will read modern scholarly work, discuss and interrogate meaning of medical classics, and use this as a basis to inform clinical practice. Prerequisite(s): These courses are to be taken in the ordered sequence of CM512, CM522 and CM532.