2006 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on the role played by the conception of body of Chinese Medicine in order to formulate the vitalistic conception of life of the School of Montpellier.
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17520071
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
History of thought
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| Research Institution | Nagoya City University |
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Principal Investigator |
TERADA Motoichi Nagoya City University, School of Humanides and Social Sciences, Professor, 大学院人間文化研究科, 教授 (90188681)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2005 – 2006
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| Keywords | Chinese Medicine / Vitalism / Enlightenment / School of Montpellier / Conception of life / Encyclopedie / French materialism / sphygmology |
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| Research Abstract |
In the first year, I made a communication 'La medecine chinoise etlamiseaupoint dela conceptionvitaliste du vivant chez des vitalistes de l'Ecole de Montpellier' in July in XXII International Congress of History of Science Beijing (China). The paper was recently published in the Archives Internationales d'Histoire des Sciences, 56 (156-157). In the article 1) I present two different traditional routes of the introduction of Chinese medicine into Europe and a common question posed by Chinese medicine to Occidental on the sympathetic communication of organs. 2) I follow the development of vitalist sphygmology from Bordeu to Menuret so as to find that the assimilation of Chinese medicine to the vitalist conception of animal economy had been realised not only in the dispute on the famous problematic of irritability but also in this development made through a physiological 《 revolution 》of sphygmology. 3) In order to get over mechanism, Menuret found a non mechanical vision of human body in
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Chinese medicine. 4) He assimilated the Chinese vision of organisation so as to enlarge a physiological horizon of vitalism.
In the second year, I examined if the sphygmology of the School of Montpellier gave a field in which vitalism had been formulated. In the article 'La sphygmologie montpellieraine: le role oublie du pouls dans l'emergence du vitalisme montpellierain', I made a profound investigation on the following questions related one another but studied separatedly until now: how did Western medicine communicate with Chinese medicine in the 18th century? how was sphygmology developed in the School of Montpellier? and how was formulated vitalism? There I present that 1) vitalism of Montpellier finally got over animism with a relational conception of animal economy, that 2) this relational vision made possible a 'revolution' of sphygmology in opening its narrow prognostic framework to a vast physiological horizon and in locating pulses in the relations of animal economy which link the outside and the inside of body and that 3) especially this 'revolution' had been realized by Menuret's introduction of the relational conception of body of Chinese medicine so as to change a mechanistic into a.vitalistic vision of life represented by a sympathetic cooperation of all parts of body. Less
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Research Products
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