Chinese Medicine is an outstanding scientific proposition system with its own structural, methodological and theoretical prerequisites flowing into the specific practices that make Chinese Medicine popular in the Western world. However, we should be aware of the fact that Chinese Medicine is challenged in its existence because it is widely not understood. Fostering the understanding of Chinese Medicine in various aspects is, hence, the main aim of this book that delivers interesting insights into the discussions on current developments in Chinese Medicine research.

Friedrich G. Wallner is university professor for the philosophy of science. His research is focused on intercultural philosophy of science, especially on the comparison of Chinese Medicine and Western medicine. Fengli Lan is associate professor for applied linguistics and Chinese Medicine at the Foreign Language Teaching Center at the Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Her research fields include Chinese Medicine, applied linguistics, and the philosophy of science, esp. intercultural and translation studies on Chinese Medicine. Martin J. Jandl is philosopher and psychologist working as a free lance scientist on different subjects, like language philosophy, the philosophy of knowledge, and praxeological functional ontology.

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