Doctor-patient Narrative Re-discovered from Overseas Traditional Chinese Medicine Practices  

作　　者：SHEN Chengju YANG Yidan LI Zhenyi 

机构地区：[1]School of Literature and Communication,Guizhou Education University,Guiyang 550018,China [2]School of Culture and Health Communication,Tianjin University of Traditional Chinese Medicine,Tianjin 301617,China [3]School of Communication and Culture,Royal Roads University,Victoria V9B 5Y2,Canada

出　　处：《Chinese Medicine and Culture》2024年第4期327-334,共8页中医药文化（英文版）

基　　金：financed by the grants from Tianjin Municipal Health Commission’s Integrated Traditional Chinese and Western Medicine Project(No.2023149);Guizhou Education University Project(No.2021YB006)。

摘　　要：The doctor-patient narrative has been revisited and appreciated in both the West and the East due to the negative impact of biochemical medicine in the past two centuries on healthcare.Biochemical medicine system simply marginalized the roles of doctors and patients.More research and practice of“doctor's benevolence”and“humanistic medicine”have called for the return of the doctor-patient narrative.This paper draws on interviews with several non-Chinese overseas traditional Chinese medicine(TCM)practitioners,whose clients are also non-Chinese.We adopted discourse analysis to explore our data.We found that they actively engaged in doctor-patient narrative with localized interpretation of TCM.We believe such a return to basic doctor-patient narrative is caused by fundamental needs for doctor-patient narrative coinciding with loose control of TCM practices in the studied countries.This discovery may inspire further study on re-establishing doctor-patient narratives in healthcare institutions by re-positioning biochemical medicine.

关 键 词：Doctor-patient narrative Overseas practice Cross-cultural communication Traditional Chinese medicine 

分 类 号：R-05[医药卫生]