探索与争鸣 ›› 2023, Vol. 1 ›› Issue (5): 132-140.

• 思想与文明 • 上一篇    下一篇

“科学”话语下的中医现代化之思——以明末清初在华传教士的中西医汇通观为中心

王沛珊,余新忠   

  • 出版日期:2023-05-20 发布日期:2023-06-14
  • 作者简介:(1)王沛珊,南开大学历史学院博士研究生; (2)余新忠,南开大学历史学院院长,教育部长江学者特聘教授。(天津 300350)

The Modernization of Traditional Chinese Medicine under the “Science” Discourse: Focusing on the Integration of Chinese and Western Medicine by Missionaries in Late Ming and Early Qing Dynasties

Wang Peishan & Yu Xinzhong   

  • Online:2023-05-20 Published:2023-06-14

摘要:

明末清初在华传教士对中医的疗效一直颇为信任,但是他们对中医理论则经历了从积极引介到否认其价值的转变。这一转变背后,一方面是中西文化立场的不同,传教士一直以西方医学为衡量标准来评价中医知识,另一方面则是传统与现代的差异,也即“科学”话语在西方社会的日益彰显。中医的现代化应该避免单一地以中与西、传统与现代的视角认识问题,而应当最终建立一套既符合现代科学、又不完全从属于西方的知识体系。

关键词:

传教士, 中西医汇通, 中医现代化, 他者, 多维度

Abstract:

During the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, missionaries in China held a strong belief in the therapeutic efficacy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). However, their perception of TCM theory underwent a transformation from active introduction to eventual denial of its value. The modernization of TCM should not be approached solely from a dichotomous perspective of Chinese versus Western or traditional versus modern. Instead, it should strive to establish a knowledge system that is both in line with modern science and independent of complete Western subjugation.

Key words:

missionary,  integration of Chinese and Western medicine,  modernization of Chinese medicine,  the other,  multi-dimensional