- From: Jack Park <jack.park@sri.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 May 2008 16:18:32 -0700
- To: wangxiao@musc.edu
- CC: public-semweb-lifesci@w3.org, Howard Liu <liuh@member.ams.org>
Xiaoshu Wang wrote: > > > > Kei Cheung wrote: >> >> Hi Eric et al, >> >> I'm glad that umls, topic map, ... were mentioned. We have to do more >> than literal translation or linguistics. It's semantics! >> >> Traditional Chinese medicine embodies rich dialectical thought, such >> as that of the holistic connections and the unity of yin and yang. It >> deals with many facets of human anatomy and physiology: 臟腑 zang-fu >> (organs), 穴 meridians (main and collateral channels), 氣 qi (vital >> energy), 血 blood, *靜 *jing (essence of life), body fluid, the inside >> and outside of the body, as well as the connections between the whole >> and the parts. >> >> I wonder if there is a Chinese counterpart of umls that have semantic >> correspondence to the English umls. Topic map is also interesting. I >> also wonder if there is a direct mapping between topic map and >> semantic web (rdf/owl) .... > Yes, I can understand this. But Chinese medicine is built upon a > complete different conceptual framework. Of course, there is a need to > connect Chinese medicine with Western medicine. But I don't think this a > cross-language issue. I am from China and I know merging the two > theories isn't an easy problem - if any possible. > > Xiaoshu > I would love to engage people, perhaps elsewhere besides this list, in a thoughtful dialogue about ways in which the federation of Chinese and Western medicine might be crafted. Optimist that I am, I believe there is a way; passionate about finding solutions to complex medical issues as I am, I'm willing to toss a lot of thinking and doing at this opportunity. We really do have a lot to learn; a short story: one of my personal physicians told me he had several patients for whom Western medicine was failing. He took the UCLA acupuncture course and succeeded in helping a majority of those patients. Thanks Jack <snip>
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