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THE PROBLEM OF THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF TRADITIONAL CHINES MEDICINE IN CHINA

Philosophy of Science , UDC: [61:1] (510) DOI: 10.25688/2078-9238.2023.45.1.5

Authors

  • Wang Haiyan Docent
  • Kuzmenko G. N. Doctor of Philosophy, Associate Professor

Annotation

Introduction. Traditional Chinese medicine is effective, supported by the state and occupies an important place in the healthcare of the People’s Republic of China. As a result, the system of educational institutions that produce specialists in this profile is developing. At the same time, unlike modern medicine, traditional medicine is based on a natural philosophical picture of the world, characteristic of the first stages of the development of scientific knowledge. In this regard, there is a problem of the usefulness of its scientific status. There is also a question about the professional quality of specialists graduating from educational institutions. Materials and methods. The materials for the study were the works that are used by Chinese scientists in the discussion on this issue. Historical and comparative methods are used as means of analyzing scientific pictures of the world in which different types of medicine were formed, are developing and are interacting now. The results of the study. Historical and comparative analysis allows us to see the professional prospects of teaching traditional Chinese medicine in the educational institutions of the People’s Republic of China. The scientific status of traditional medicine and, accordingly, its convergence with modern medicine are problematic within the framework of the classical model of science. At the same time, the epistemological anarchism of the modern (post-non-classical) model of scientific knowledge rehabilitates this status. Conclusion. In the discussion of the Chinese scientific community, the whole range of arguments for and against the scientific status of traditional Chinese medicine is used. However, due to the state support for the regime of integration of modern and traditional medicine, the dominant approach is the prospect of combining these types of medicine. This approach is consistent with the post-non-classical model of scientific knowledge. Obviously, the recognition of this circumstance can become a formal basis for the scientific legalization of the status of traditional medicine in the education system of the People’s Republic of China.

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Wang, H. . & Kuzmenko, G. N. (2023). THE PROBLEM OF THE SCIENTIFIC STATUS OF TRADITIONAL CHINES MEDICINE IN CHINA Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 2023, №1 (45), 68. https://doi.org/10.25688/2078-9238.2023.45.1.5
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