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http://dx.doi.org/10.15188/kjopp.2019.10.33.5.261

A Study on the Definition of Korean Medicine  

Chi, Gyoo Yong (Department of Korean Medicine Pathology, College of Korean Medicine, Dongeui University)
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Journal of Physiology & Pathology in Korean Medicine / v.33, no.5, 2019 , pp. 261-266 More about this Journal
Abstract
In order to cope with various issues about access to public health system of Korean medicine and reformation of college curriculum and argument of pseudoscience on Korean medicine etc., a new definition of Korean medicine was devised. Two ways of approach were tried through analysis of precedent cases of definition on traditional medicine firstly and analysis on concept and logic of Korean medicine secondly. As a result, Korean medicine can be defined as a science of theories and application techniques for maintaining health and diagnosing, treating and preventing conditions、causes、prognosis of diseases or damages based on the correlative and complicated understanding about the structure and function of mind and body out of human lives under the environment and society. This definition can be used as a basis to derive legal rights or scope in area of research and education policies and social institutions of the Korean medicine and to confront scientification criticism hereafter.
Keywords
Definition of Korean Medicine; Scientificity; Yinyang and Five Phase Theory; Correlative and Complicated;
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