Cultivating Medical Intentionality: The Phenomenology of Diagnostic Virtuosity in East Asian Medicine.
Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry March 1, 2017 Taewoo Kim 11 citations
This study examines the perceptual basis of diagnostic virtuosity in East Asian medicine, combining Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology and an ethnographic investigation of Korean medicine in South Korea. A novice, being exposed to numerous clinical transactions during apprenticeship, organizes perceptual experience that occurs between him or herself and patients. In the process, the fledgling...
DOI: 10.1007/s11013-016-9505-8 (opens in new tab)
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Phenomenology
East asian medicine
Korean medicine
Medical perception