Research On The Knowledge Of Tenderness Diagnosis--View Of Medical Anthropology And Science Technology Study (STS)

This research uses anthropological methods and the perspective of Science and Technology Studies (STS) to study the practice of tenderness diagnosis. It compares the practice of tenderness diagnosis in Chinese medicine, Integrated medicine (combined Western and Chinese medicine), Meridian theory, and Western medicine. It will also consider how the experience of tenderness varies across different cultures and historical eras.This research demonstrates that although both Western medicine and Chinese medicine have paid close attention to this common clinical phenomenon, the descriptions, explanations, and value of tenderness diagnosis has been strongly influenced by epistemological and social-cultural particularities of both medical systems. This study will make a detailed analysis of the language, grammar and cognitive model of Chinese medicine tenderness diagnosis and demonstrate its unique contribution to clinical practice.Chapter I provides a basic introduction to Medical Anthropology and the current knowledge of tenderness diagnosis in Western medicine.Chapter II to IV discuss the clinical tenderness diagnosis technology in Chinese medicine from the perspective of cultural anthropology. It will address the historic failures of tenderness diagnosis technology in Chinese medicine, and the problems of cultural translation in the tenderness diagnosis technology now used in Integrated medicine.Chapter V incorporates the perspective of STS to analyze the theory of tenderness diagnosis and will analyze specific clinical cases.Chapter VI will analyze the relation between language, cognitive models, and knowledge systems in tenderness diagnosis.In this comparative study , the practice of tenderness is considered from different cultural perspectives. Medical anthropology can critically analyze conceptual forms like the category of tenderness and how different categories of tenderness might be distinguished both logically and practically. It can look at how their points of view and goals converge or differ. The "experience of tenderness" can be investigated, in Western medicine and Chinese medicine, in local systems and global scientific forms.