EASTmedicine
Members
| Staff | |
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Dr Volker Scheid (Director) |
Felicity Moir |
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Michelle Aris (Administrator) |
Mike Potter |
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Ann Bradford |
Katie Scampton |
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James Cattermole |
Cinzia Scorzon |
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Hanya Chala |
Alan Treharne |
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Mary Dobbing |
Jane Wilson |
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Rosy Grandage |
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| Research Student | |
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Trina Ward |
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Summary
EASTmedicine (East Asian Sciences and Traditions in Medicine) is an innovative interdisciplinary research centre focusing on the understanding, development and evaluation of East Asian medicines as living traditions. This implies a perception of these traditions as complex and evolving systems able to adapt to changing use contexts, and capable of assimilating ideas, technologies, practices and institutions from other medical and cultural systems.
EASTmedicine seeks to describe and analyse the dynamics of these transformations with a specific view of managing their integration into contemporary health care. To this end we employ approaches from across the humanities, the social and natural sciences including history, anthropology, science studies, philosophy, and clinical research. Our aim is to develop a thorough understanding of the historical, political and social influences that have shaped therapies for different conditions over time. Treatments that promise to be valuable for contemporary health care needs will be refined through practice-based clinical research before being evaluated through conventional clinical trials.
EASTmedicine is currently carrying out two long-term research projects: an evaluation of Chinese medicine treatment strategies for menopausal syndrome with a view towards their integration into the NHS; and a transnational history of the liver in East Asian medicine.
EASTmedicine also offers courses in Chinese medicine (acupuncture and herbal medicine) at BSc and MSc level thereby integrating research with clinical practice.
Images
Dividing and cutting herbs into portions in a traditional Korean pharmacy (Maeng Hwasup Haniuwan) in Seoul, South Korea (c) Mark de Fraeye, Wellcome Images
This illustration identifies and names the acupuncture points in some of the 14 bodily tracts on the body. It is derived from Chinese medical illustrations and depicts figures whose dress, facial hair and hairstyles identify them as Chinese; Japanese reading marks have been added to the text to ease understanding. Early 18th Century. (c) Wellcome Library, London
Lab worker preparing herb samples for distillation at the Brion Research Institute of Taiwan, Taipei. (c) Mark de Fraeye, Wellcome Images
Recent Publications
Complete lists of publications are available on each staff members site.
Scheid, V., V. Tuffrey & T. Ward. (forthcoming). What Should Researchers Evaluate in Chinese Medicine Research: The Case of Menopause.
Ward, T., V. Scheid & V. Tuffrey. (forthcoming). Women's mid-life health experiences in urban UK: a cross-cultural comparison.
Scheid, V. 2009. Globalising Chinese medical understandings of menopause. East Asia Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal.
Scheid, V., A. Ellis, D. Bensky & R. Barolet. 2009. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formulas and Strategies (2nd enlarged edition). Seattle: Eastland Press.
MacPherson Hugh, Thomas Kate, Armstrong Bo, de Valois Beverly, Relton C, Mullinger B, White A, Flower Andrew & S. Volker. 2008. Developing research strategies in complementary and alternative medicine. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 16, 359362.
Scheid, V. 2008. Authenticity, best practice, and the evidence mosaic. The challenge of integrating traditional East Asian medicines into Western Health Care. Complementary Therapies in Medicine 16, 107-108.
Scheid, V. 2008. The mangle of practice and the practice of Chinese medicine: a case study from nineteenth-century China. In The Mangle in Practice: Science, Society, and Becoming (eds) A. Pickering & K. Guzik. Durham and London: Duke University Press.
Scheid, V. 2007. Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626 - 2006. Seattle: Eastland Press.
Scheid, V. 2007. Ding Ganren, Fei Boxiong, Yun Tieqiao. In Dictionary of Medical Biography (eds) W.F. Bynum & H. Bynum: Greenwood Press.
Scheid, V. 2002. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis. Durham: Duke University Press.
Current Grants
Department of Health, NCC-RCD Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2004-2008; The Treatment of Menopause by Chinese Medicine: Delivering NHS Based Solutions; Amount: 452,413.13
Wellcome Trust for the History of Medicine Project Grant: 2009 2012; Treating the Liver: Towards a Transnational History of East Asian Medicine; Amount 205,000