An examination of critical issues in traditional Chinese acupuncture research

This dissertation examines the critical issues associated with inquiry and research in the field of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture (TCA), one of the treatment modalities of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). TCM can be understood to constitute a distinct health care paradigm in the Kuhnian sense of having its own ontology, fundamental tenets, assumptions and practices. As TCA is practised within the framework of the TCM paradigm with its associated concepts of the person, health, illness and disease, it is argued that appropriate modes of inquiry and research methods for TCA can only be determined if one has a comprehensive understanding of the nature, philosophy, theory and practice of TCM and TCA.

Name dc:type.qualificationname

phd

Level dc:type.qualificationlevel

doctoral

Grantor dc:publisher.institution

Victoria University of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

1999

Author dc:creator

• Nester, Barry Wayne

• 1104 Complementary and Alternative Medicine
• School of Biomedical and Health Sciences

Language dc:language

en