Ming Dynasty Chinese Traditional Surgery And The European Renaissance Surgery, A Comparative Study

Instructed by science and philosophy new development, comparative studies between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine (CSTCMWM) arises currently and focuses on poly-culture, science evolution, history intercommunion, interpretation and changing-mode methodology in medicine. It is termed as transcending beyond nation, beyond the subject and beyond the different cultures and aims at syncretism between macro-holistic medicine and micro-evidenced sciences. This subject helps us find the different diagnostic ideas and therapeutics based upon the two completely dissimilar culture-influenced backgrounds.Being thousands of years accumulated, the surgery of TCM in the Ming dynasty has achieved the summit throughout the whole history. Diverse medical schools of TCM surgical doctors sprang up , and they all bored their own unique features in the recognition and healing of various surgical diseases. They printed out abundant surgical monographs and documentations. By the exact Ming and Qing dynasties, it has formed three main academic schools of TCM surgery.In European, almost at the same time as Renaissance, Paracelsus's medical revolution and the establish of anatomy and pathology all encouraged the development of western surgery.This paper puts on and emphases on the comparative studies of the society and culture background, the influence by the scientific techniques and the distinctive characteristics between Traditional Chinese Medicine and western medicine at that time. Medical communication and therapeutic experience are discussed deliberately.Naturally the comparative studies have explored the reason of similarities and distinctions between TCM and Western Medicine at the angle of the philosophy of sciences and social humanity. Furthermore, the study offers more research clues and shows us obviously the more truth of that TCM will in the near future make step into the world medicine with its academic frame-system. The research definitely broadens the international medical cooperation and promotes the western medical humanities communication. This paper also provides the united- and crossing joints of Eastern- and Western medical cultures as well.