You H
Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 1994 Dec;18(4):463-81. doi: 10.1007/BF01565849.
This paper tries to shed a fresh light on the use of several key terms in traditional Chinese medicine (and philosophy) related to the theory of so-called systematic correspondence. Drawing on some influential works in Chinese science and civilization (e.g., Marcel Granet, Joseph Needham, Nathan Sivin), the paper argues that the idea of rhythm, properly defined, should become an organizing idea in studying the traditions of Chinese thinking and practice in medicine as well as in general. Rhythmicity is not periodicity (though they are inseparable from one another) and the idea of rhythm is more useful (than for example the notion of correspondence) for medical anthropology. The paper is divided into three parts: 1) the idea of rhythm in some key terms of traditional Chinese medicine, 2) the Chinese theory of resonance versus the idea of rhythm, and 3) the relation of resonance, rhythm and ecstatic experiences with respect to medical anthropology. An acquaintance with the arguments of my previous article in these pages will be helpful but not necessary for the present paper.
本文试图对传统中医（及哲学）中与所谓的系统对应理论相关的几个关键术语的使用给予新的阐释。借鉴中国科学与文明领域的一些有影响力的著作（如马塞尔·格拉内、李约瑟、席文），本文认为，正确定义的节律概念，应成为研究中国医学思维与实践传统乃至一般传统的一个组织性概念。节律性并非周期性（尽管二者相互不可分割），且节律概念（相较于例如对应概念）对医学人类学更有用。本文分为三个部分：1）中医一些关键术语中的节律概念；2）中国的共振理论与节律概念；3）关于医学人类学的共振、节律与狂喜体验的关系。熟悉我之前在这些页面发表的文章中的论点，对理解本文会有帮助，但并非必需。
