COURSE MATERIALS

• Lecture: 3.1. Cartesian Duality, Biomedicine, and “Spirit” (Or “What’s the difference between Medicine and Religion?”) (Note to self: this lecture will cover the Kung healing dances, Tibetan medicine, as well as TCM, use examples from Sept 2014 MAQ article about cancer)
• Lecture: 3.2. The “Does it Work?” question and the nature of science
• Link: “A Low-Tech Approach to Fertility: Just Relax”
• PDF: 3.1. Unschuld, Paul. What is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Medicine. Chapters 1-5 (pp. 1-20), pp. 89-90 “Theology without Theos,” (Skip “Everything Will Be Fine” and “Left Alone in the Computer Tomograph”) Read pp. 91-96. (Available as an e-book through the MSU library on-line)
  • Part I
  • Part II
• PDF: 3.2. SKIM THESE ARTICLE ABSTRACTS (create PDF of article abstracts)
  1. Fritzsche, Kurt, M.D., et al. “The Treatment of Patients with Medically Unexplained Physical Symptoms in China: A Study Comparing Expectations and Treatment Satisfaction in Psychosomatic Medicine, Biomedicine, and Traditional Chinese Medicine“, INT’L. J. PSYCHIATRY IN MEDICINE, Vol. 41(3) 229-244, 2011
  2. Berga, Sarah, M.D. “Recovery of Ovarian Activity in Women with Functional Hypothalamic Amenorrhea Who Were Treated with Cognitive Behavior Therapy“
  3. Rapoport, Nathalie, M.D. et al. “‘Letting go’ Coping is Associated with Successful IVF Treatment Outcome“, Fertility and Sterility, Volume 92, Issue 4, October 2009, Pages 1384–1388.
  4. Leng JC, et al. 2014. “Traditional Chinese Medicine Use among Chinese Immigrant Cancer Patients“

A note on Skimming: Different kinds of writing lend themselves to different kinds of reading. I am asking you to read the abstracts of these scientific studies. If you are interested in learning more, you can find all of these studies on-line through the MSU library.

• Film: 3.1. BBC Documentary “The Science of Acupuncture” 57:57
• Clip: 3.1. SAN (Bushman) Healing Dance Botswana Africa 9:12
• Book: continue reading The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down. Chapter Four and Five (note: we will discuss in Week 6)

ASSESSMENTS

1. Blog Post: Prompt – DUE by Friday 7/22 @ 11:59pm EST
2. Blog Comments: DUE by Sunday 7/24 @ 11:59pm EST.