Shén 神: categoria estruturante da racionalidade médica chinesa

• Autor(a) principal: Ferreira, Claudia dos Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2007
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/4219
• topic: Chinese Medicine. Acupuncture. SHÉN. Mind. Spirit.; Medicina chinesa. Acupuntura. Shén. Mente. Espírito; CNPQ::CIENCIAS DA SAUDE::SAUDE COLETIVA

The Chinese medicine spread in the West has been studied in a fragmented way among its different forms of expression developed throughout the history of Chinese Medical Thinking.In this sense, the text highlights three possible paths of this expression, which are denominated: Classical Chinese Medicine (GÜ DÀI ZHÖNG YÏ), Traditional Chinese Medicine (ZHÖNG YÏ) e Contemporary Chinese Medicine (DÄNG DÀI ZHÖNG YÏ). The first one expresses the formulations in the classical works which appeared during the formative period of Chinese Medicine, in the HÁN Dynasty (206 b.C. to 221 a.C.). The second one as theoretical and practical body of knowledge which disseminated itself in the East in general and, later on, in the West as a continuity of Classical Chinese Medicine (GÜ DÀI ZHÖNG YÏ). The third one refers to the current hegemony, today, in the People s of Republic of China, which began from a systematization and unification of the Traditional Chinese Medicine (ZHÖNG YÏ), proposed by Mao Zedong, practiced in the People s of Republic of China, later, on western milieus. The objective of this paper is to investigate how the SHÉN category, frequently translated as Mind or Spirit , has been spread in the West by different authors representing each one of these paths. For such, we take into consideration academic notoriety, familiary with the Chinese language, the presupposition adopted, the personal history of each one of these authors, understood as determinants for their apprehensions of senses and meanings of the SHÉN category and, consequently, for the meanings which its diffusion in the West may assume. Understanding Chinese Medicine as a Medical Rationality, according to the definition of Madel Therezinha Luz, constituted by six dimensions: Cosmology, Medical Doctrine, Vital Dynamics, Morphology, Diagnosis and Therapeutics, this research investigates, from the theoretical-conceptual point of view, supported by Medical Philosophy and Anthropology such as the SHÉN category, relates to each one of the Chinese Medical Rationality s dimensions. SHÉN relates to many different other categories of Chinese Philosophical and Medical Thinking, not being possible to conceptualize it without mentioning these categories, like DÀO , YÏN YÁNG , TIÄN (Heave), RÉN (Men), DÌ (Earth), MING (Destiny), WÜ XÍNG (Five Phases), SÄN BÄO (Three Treasures), GUÏ e LING It manifests itself indifferent ways by means of its relation with the ZÁNG FÜ (Organs and Viscera), interfering in the organic-visceral functioning, in the aspects of personality, emotions, understood as a body-mind-spirit totality in the Chinese Medical Thinking. SHÉN is present in all dimensions of Chinese Medical Rationality, differing in the degree of importance give by authors which represent each of the three paths of Chinese Medicine. Authors representing the Classical Chinese Medicine (GÜ DÀI ZHÖNG YÏ) and the Traditional Chinese Medicine (ZHÖNG YÏ) tend to valorize its presence in all dimensions. Authors representing the Contemporary Chinese Medicine (DÄNG DÀI ZHÖNG YÏ) tend to valorize SHÉN participation in the Diagnosis dimension. Its notice, therefore, that SHÉN , when participating in all dimensions, gain the important role of structuring the Chinese Medical Rationality, not being possible to disregard it in the studies of Chinese Medicine, under the risk of compromising the importance of this Medical Rationality.