Medicine: East Meets West - Fall 2001

COURSE SCHEDULE 

Dr. Henry Jakubowski

TENTATIVE CLASS SCHEDULE

Day Date Topic Lab Reading for Class
1 8/30  TH2

Intro - Syllabus

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2 9/3  M4 TCM/West - Ulcers, Dichotomies and Preconceived Notions . Kaptchuk 1 (1-7; 20-39)
3 9/5  W6  Old vs New - W: Cut, Grow, Burn, Conceive . Video
4 9/7 F2 4 elements/4 humors of Greeks; 5 Elements of Chinese . Silver 10
5 9/11 TU4 Bacon, Descarte, Popper  -  Scientific Method . Silver 2; Medawar (Library); Popper; Hist. Science - West.
6 9/13 TH6 Force/Motion/Gravity:  East vs West . Silver  3, 4, 5, 
7 9/17 M2 Kuhn, Popper revisited Lab1 - Blue Bottle  Silver 10; Kuhn;  
8 9/19 W4 China History . Condensed Chinese History; History of China

Not so Condensed

9 9/21 F6 Confucianism, Legalists . 7. Confucianism by Ronan and Needham; Confucianism by H. Smith; Excerpts from the Analects; Full ETEXT: Analects
10 9/25 TU2 Taoism, Naturalist, Yin Yang Lab2 -    Phlogiston:  8. Taoism by Ronan and Needham 8; Kaptchuk 1 (7-19); Tao Te Ching
11 9/27 TH4 Buddhism, Neoconfucianism . Needham 14 and 12 (227-249) (or web summary); 
12 10/1 M6 5 Element, I Ching, Systematic Correspond. . Needham 10; 
13 10/3 W2 Confuciansim, Taoism, Buddhism and Science; Human Law Lab3A - Transmutation; Silver 10  Neeham 16
14 10/9 TU4 Review; Presentations Assist. . -
15 10/11 TH6 Test 1  .
16 10/15 M2 TCM 2 - Texture; TCM 3 - Organs Lab3B - Transmutation; Silver 10  Kaptchuk 2, 3
17 10/17 W4 TCM 4 - Merdians; TCM 5 - Organ Disharmony . Kaptchuk 4, 5
18 10/19 F6 TCM 6 - 4 Exams; TCM -7:  8 Patterns . Kaptchuk 6, 7
19 10/23 TU2 TCM 8 -  Human Landscape; TCM 9 -  Lab4- Atoms A - Structure Atom; Silver 12,13  Kaptchuk 8, 9
20 10/25 TH4 History TCM 1 . Web
21 10/29 M6 History TCM 2 . Web
22 10/31 W2 Birth Bio/His Med W Lab5 -  Molecular Modeling  Silver 20, web
23 11/2 F4 His Med .
24 11/6 TU6 Biomolecular/Genomic 
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25 11/8 TH2 Medical Trials Lab7 - Central Dogma Biology, Modeling  Articles
26 11/12 M4 Placebo . Articles
27 11/14 W6 Cancer Hunter . Video
28 11/16 F2 E vs W Lab8 - Solubility Hypothesis  .
29 11/20 TU4 Test 2 . -
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11/27 TU6

Organs in TCM - Emotional Metaphor . Ots
31 11/29 TH2 Dialectic vs Syllogistic Lab9 - Natural Products  Article
32 12/3 M4 Visit - Mindfulness . Guest
33 12/5 W6 Visit - Chinese M.D. . Guest
34 12/7 F2 Visit -  TCM practitioner Lab 10 - Synthesis Aspirin Silver 24Lab9- Synthesis Aspirin Guest
35 12/11 TU4 Synthesis . .
36 12/13 TH6 Why . .