A conversation with Sabine Wilms and her Imperial Tutor Tea Time Talks about integrating scholarship and the practice of Buddhism and Asian medicine. https://imperialtutor.kartra.com/videopage/ScholarshipandPractice
[VIDEO] Navigating Different Medical Paradigms
A wide-ranging conversation between Pierce Salguero and Beth Gram of the Chinese Medicine Education Cooperative. Topics covered include the influence of Buddhism on Chinese medicine, medical pluralism in China, parallels between medieval China and today, cultural translation vs appropriation, differences
[VIDEO] Conversation about meta-approaches to Asian medicine
A two-part discussion with Sabine Wilms’s Imperial Tutor Tea Time Talks group, recorded in summer and fall 2020. These talks respond directly to the blogs in the Meta-Approaches to Asian Medicine Series.
A Polyperspectival Asian Medicine Practice
My last three posts have dealt with meta-level epistemic questions in the study of Asian medicine. It is now time to focus in on how these big-picture concerns play out in day-to-day decision making in the clinic. This post explores
A Metamorphic Approach to Asian Medicine
Imagine you are some kind of super-intelligent alien located on a planet way out in the furthest reaches of the galaxy. You are looking out through a high-powered telescope, and have found this little planet called Earth. Your civilization’s advanced
A Metadisciplinary Approach to Asian Medicine
Interdisciplinarity has failed as a model for collaboration in the study of Asian medicine. Here, I propose the new model of “metadisciplinarity” as a means of bringing people together in more productive and more generative ways. In my last post,
A Metamodern Approach to Asian Medicine
The traditional Asian medicine community has a communication problem. We know it all too well. Lawrence Cohen identified it decades ago when he wrote about the Third International Congress of Traditional Asian Medicine (ICTAM) in Bombay in 1990. He observed