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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
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1 Life = Body Plus X -
2 Medicine, or Novelty Appeal -
3 Why Laws of Nature? -
4 Longing for Order -
5 Ethics and Legality -
6 Why Here? Why Now? -
7 Thales' Trite Observation -
8 Polis, Law, and Self-determination -
9 The Individual and the Whole -
10 Nonmedical Healing -
11 Mawangdui: Early Healing in China -
12 Humans Are Biologically Identical across Cultures. So Why Not Medicine? -
13 The Yellow Thearch's Body Image -
14 The Birth of Chinese Medicine -
15 The Division of the Elite -
16 A View to the Visible, and Opinions on the Invisible -
17 State Concept and Body Image -
18 Farewell to Demons and Spirits -
19 New Pathogens, and Morality -
20 Medicine without Pharmaceutics -
21 Pharmaceutics without Medicine -
22 Puzzling Parallels -
23 The Beginning of Medicine in Greece -
24 The End of Monarchy -
25 Troublemakers and Ostracism -
26 I See Something You Don't See -
27 Powers of Self-healing: Self-evident? -
28 Confucians' Fear of Chaos -
29 Medicine: Expression of the General State of Mind -
30 Dynamic Ideas and Faded Model Images -
31 The Hour of the Dissectors -
32 Manifold Experiences of the World -
33 Greek Medicine and Roman Incomprehension -
34 Illness as Stasis -
35 Head and Limbs -
36 The Rediscovery of Wholeness -
37 To Move the Body to a Statement -
38 Galen of Pergamon: Collector in All Worlds -
39 Europe's Ancient Pharmacology -
40 The Wheel of Progress Turns No More -
41 Constancy and Discontinuity of Structures -
42 Arabian Interlude -
43 The Tang Era: Cultural Diversity, Conceptual Vacuum -
44 Changes in the Song Era -
45 The Authority of Distant Antiquity -
46 Zhang Ji's Belated Honors -
47 Chinese Pharmacology -
48 The Diagnosis Game -
49 The Physician as the Pharmacist's Employee -
50 Relighting the Torch of European Antiquity -
51 The Primacy of the Practical -
52 The Variety of Therapeutics -
53 Which Model Image for a New Medicine? -
54 The Real Heritage of Antiquity -
55 Galenism as Trade in Antiques -
56 Integration and Reductionism in the Song Dynasty -
57 The New Freedom to Expand Knowledge -
58 Healing the State, Healing the Organism -
59 Trapped in the Cage of Tradition -
60 Xu Dachun, Giovanni Morgagni, and Intra-abdominal Abscesses -
61 Acupuncturists, Barbers, and Masseurs -
62 No Scientific Revolution in Medicine -
63 The Discovery of New Worlds -
64 Paracelsus: A Tumultuous Mind with an Overview -
65 Durable and Fragile Cage Bars -
66 The Most Beautiful Antiques and the Most Modern Images in One Room -
67 Harvey and the Magna Carta -
68 A Cartesian Case for Circulation -
69 Long Live the Periphery! -
70 Out of the Waiting Shelter, into the Jail Cell -
71 Sensations That Pull into the Lower Parts of the Body -
72 Homeopathy Is Not Medicine -
73 “God with Us” on the Belt Buckle -
74 Medicine Independent of Theology -
75 Virchow: The Man of Death as the Interpreter of Life -
76 Robert Koch: Pure Science? -
77 Wash Your Hands, Keep the Germs Away -
78 AIDS: The Disease That Fits -
79 China in the Nineteenth Century: A New Cage Opens Up -
80 Two Basic Ideas of Medicine -
81 Value-free Biology and Cultural Interpretation -
82 A Transit Visa and a Promise -
83 Scorn, Mockery, and Invectives for Chinese Medicine -
84 Traditional Medicine in the PRC: Faith in Science -
85 The Arabs of the Twentieth Century, or Crowding in the Playpen -
86 When the Light Comes from Behind -
87 In the Beginning Was the Word -
88 Out of Touch with Nature -
89 Theology without Theos -
90 Everything Will Be Fine -
91 Left Alone in the Computer Tomograph -
92 Healing and the Energy Crisis -
93 TCM: Western Fears, Chinese Set Pieces -
94 Harmony, Not War -
95 The Loss of the Center -
96 Contented Customers in a Supermarket of Possibilities -
97 The More Things Change -
98 One World, or Tinkering with Building Blocks -
99 A Vision of Unity over All Diversity - Afterword
- Index
Theology without Theos
Theology without Theos
- Chapter:
- 89 Theology without Theos
- Source:
- What Is Medicine?
- Author(s):
Paul U. Unschuld
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
DOI:10.1525/california/9780520257658.003.0089
This chapter deals with the theology of the idolatry of nature. The “theology” of Chinese medicine gives answers that believers in the churches of conventional religion have to live without. However, this “theology” is not theology, because it has no theos. It is a religion, because it makes the individual's integration in the greater whole understandable. Therefore, the churches become superfluous and the yin-yang provides answers to the questions of existence, purpose, relationship to the universe, and the future. The cyclical ideas of yin-yang and the five agents promise hope. This hope is much needed in this era, when bad news is heard or read daily. With increasingly more chemistry, technology, and energy requirements, the concern that remains, is the question, how can the environment ever recover.
Keywords: theology, nature, theos, yin-yang, environment
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- Title Pages
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- [UNTITLED]
- Preface
-
1 Life = Body Plus X -
2 Medicine, or Novelty Appeal -
3 Why Laws of Nature? -
4 Longing for Order -
5 Ethics and Legality -
6 Why Here? Why Now? -
7 Thales' Trite Observation -
8 Polis, Law, and Self-determination -
9 The Individual and the Whole -
10 Nonmedical Healing -
11 Mawangdui: Early Healing in China -
12 Humans Are Biologically Identical across Cultures. So Why Not Medicine? -
13 The Yellow Thearch's Body Image -
14 The Birth of Chinese Medicine -
15 The Division of the Elite -
16 A View to the Visible, and Opinions on the Invisible -
17 State Concept and Body Image -
18 Farewell to Demons and Spirits -
19 New Pathogens, and Morality -
20 Medicine without Pharmaceutics -
21 Pharmaceutics without Medicine -
22 Puzzling Parallels -
23 The Beginning of Medicine in Greece -
24 The End of Monarchy -
25 Troublemakers and Ostracism -
26 I See Something You Don't See -
27 Powers of Self-healing: Self-evident? -
28 Confucians' Fear of Chaos -
29 Medicine: Expression of the General State of Mind -
30 Dynamic Ideas and Faded Model Images -
31 The Hour of the Dissectors -
32 Manifold Experiences of the World -
33 Greek Medicine and Roman Incomprehension -
34 Illness as Stasis -
35 Head and Limbs -
36 The Rediscovery of Wholeness -
37 To Move the Body to a Statement -
38 Galen of Pergamon: Collector in All Worlds -
39 Europe's Ancient Pharmacology -
40 The Wheel of Progress Turns No More -
41 Constancy and Discontinuity of Structures -
42 Arabian Interlude -
43 The Tang Era: Cultural Diversity, Conceptual Vacuum -
44 Changes in the Song Era -
45 The Authority of Distant Antiquity -
46 Zhang Ji's Belated Honors -
47 Chinese Pharmacology -
48 The Diagnosis Game -
49 The Physician as the Pharmacist's Employee -
50 Relighting the Torch of European Antiquity -
51 The Primacy of the Practical -
52 The Variety of Therapeutics -
53 Which Model Image for a New Medicine? -
54 The Real Heritage of Antiquity -
55 Galenism as Trade in Antiques -
56 Integration and Reductionism in the Song Dynasty -
57 The New Freedom to Expand Knowledge -
58 Healing the State, Healing the Organism -
59 Trapped in the Cage of Tradition -
60 Xu Dachun, Giovanni Morgagni, and Intra-abdominal Abscesses -
61 Acupuncturists, Barbers, and Masseurs -
62 No Scientific Revolution in Medicine -
63 The Discovery of New Worlds -
64 Paracelsus: A Tumultuous Mind with an Overview -
65 Durable and Fragile Cage Bars -
66 The Most Beautiful Antiques and the Most Modern Images in One Room -
67 Harvey and the Magna Carta -
68 A Cartesian Case for Circulation -
69 Long Live the Periphery! -
70 Out of the Waiting Shelter, into the Jail Cell -
71 Sensations That Pull into the Lower Parts of the Body -
72 Homeopathy Is Not Medicine -
73 “God with Us” on the Belt Buckle -
74 Medicine Independent of Theology -
75 Virchow: The Man of Death as the Interpreter of Life -
76 Robert Koch: Pure Science? -
77 Wash Your Hands, Keep the Germs Away -
78 AIDS: The Disease That Fits -
79 China in the Nineteenth Century: A New Cage Opens Up -
80 Two Basic Ideas of Medicine -
81 Value-free Biology and Cultural Interpretation -
82 A Transit Visa and a Promise -
83 Scorn, Mockery, and Invectives for Chinese Medicine -
84 Traditional Medicine in the PRC: Faith in Science -
85 The Arabs of the Twentieth Century, or Crowding in the Playpen -
86 When the Light Comes from Behind -
87 In the Beginning Was the Word -
88 Out of Touch with Nature -
89 Theology without Theos -
90 Everything Will Be Fine -
91 Left Alone in the Computer Tomograph -
92 Healing and the Energy Crisis -
93 TCM: Western Fears, Chinese Set Pieces -
94 Harmony, Not War -
95 The Loss of the Center -
96 Contented Customers in a Supermarket of Possibilities -
97 The More Things Change -
98 One World, or Tinkering with Building Blocks -
99 A Vision of Unity over All Diversity - Afterword
- Index
