rather than aetiological definition provided a means for Chinese medicine to differentiate itself from biomedicine and to offer practical therapeutics while avoiding confrontation between the distinct and potentially incommensurate ontologies of Chinese medicine and biomedicine. One of our interviewees, a dual...
Any definition herein may be used in combination with any other definition to describe a composite structural group. By convention, the trailing element of any such definition is that which attaches to the parent moiety. For example, the composite group alkylamido would represent an alkyl group at...
Definition Dermatophytes are a group of morphologically and physiologically related molds some of which cause well- defined infections: dermatophytoses (tineas or ringworm) [3]. They possess two important properties: they are kera- tinophilic and keratinolytic. This means they have the abi- ...
Introduction Patterns of immigrant health have received considerable attention in the social science and medical literature in the past two decades, particularly in the United States [1–3], where researchers have focused on the 'paradox' of good health given relatively poor socioeconomic conditions a...
the acceptance of germ theory and of microbiological laboratory analysis for diagnostic purposes presented a potential challenge for commensurability between Chinese medical and biomedical nomenclature and the incorporation of germ theory into Chinese medicine. It may have been the biomedical definition of ...
Epilepsy is a pathologic condition with high prevalence and devastating consequences for the patient and its entourage. Means for accurate diagnosis of type, patient monitoring for predicting seizures and follow up, and efficacious treatment are desperat