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The Paradigm Reference Section, I
Most of our authors are scholars, many have academic positions. Thus they are, and have been, very productive contributors to the academic literature of our field. What was called “The Term Debate” was two-sided. On one side we have events like Dr. Daniel Bensky’s comment that Chinese medicine has no terminology and Elsevier’s publication of Foundation of Chinese Medicine, a textbook with a very small gloss. On the other, we have Nigel Wiseman and Paul Unschuld’s research and their dictionaries describing thousands of concepts with historically fixed definitions in the Chinese language. Who won the debate? It depends on your criteria. There is essential no Chinese or western scholarship that does not recognize that Chinese medicine has a large and sophisticated conceptual foundation and thus a rich terminology. Yet, commercially, student texts are the “cash cow” of the business. These generally adhere to the idea that except for a small set of concepts, you can understand and practice Chinese medicine based on the meaning of similar western notions. Read more…
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Welcome to the New Paradigm Publications Site
Our new site is a catalog of our titles. All the “Order this Book” links connect directly to Redwing Books On-line, our distributor. You may read more about ordering here. In some cases, you will find additional samples or reviews at www.redwingbooks.com We have eliminated features from the older site, mainly membership and visitor blogging. During the period when the “Term Debate” was an everyday event we kept a membership section so that people could write about this issue. With less activity around the topic today, logins are an unnecessary inconvenience. With the advent of the many on-line social media sites available today, (our first site was in 1981), a special-purpose blog doesn’t make much sense or get much attention. However, all of the materials from the term debate era are are now available in the References section and can be accessed without a login. There are a number of projects with the site on-going. We will be adding links to additional sample chapters for many of our texts. Because eBook users can change much about the format of the pages they view, and not everyone has an eReader, these examples are taken from the print book. The content is the same. These samples are in PDF format and can be view in virtually any browser with the appropriate PDF extension. We have used the “Reviews” tab of the site format to offer short, sometimes personal insights into the text, it’s history and use. Reviews of Paradigm texts are found in many journals and many of these texts have established an on-going role in the field. Thus, we thought this might be of more use to today’s readers. We hope you will find the new site useful and convenient. We are happy to hear your comments, complaints and ideas, which you can forward to us via the form at the bottom of the “Contact” form. Read more…