Cultural 'Prescription'
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Editor's review
As a surgeon and medical school teacher, Luo Jiangxi offers us an extremely valuable perspective through his dual identity—both healer and long-term critically ill patient. He does not stop at simply recording pain and treatment, but deeply integrates his personal experience with insights from traditional Chinese culture (especially Confucian and Daoist thought). In the book, he shares how he drew wisdom from classics such as The Analects, the Daodejing, and the Huangdi Neijing to tame inner fear, anxiety, and despair, thereby gaining spiritual strength to transcend illness. This exploration, which combines cultural cultivation with life practice, elevates the book beyond ordinary inspirational literature or medical memoir to the level of philosophy and life education.
In the editor's view, the core value of this book lies in the healing paradigm of "looking inward" that it offers. In a modern society highly dependent on external medical technology and drugs, the author proves through his own "experiment" that building and nurturing the inner spiritual world plays an irreplaceable role in health—especially in the quality of life of patients with chronic or severe illness. His writing is plain and unadorned, without sentimentality or preaching, yet it is thoroughly persuasive because of its genuine visceral pain and decades of perseverance. In reading this book, readers will gain not only a moving story, but possibly an entirely new way of thinking about life, illness, and health—a cultural "prescription" for settling body and mind in difficult circumstances.
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Readers suffering from chronic or severe illness who seek spiritual strength and inner peace
- Those interested in the connection between traditional Chinese health practices, traditional culture, and physical and mental well-being
- Practitioners in helping professions such as medicine, nursing, and psychological counseling who wish to deepen their understanding of patients' psychology
- Ordinary readers in a low point in life or feeling anxious and lost who need guidance from philosophical wisdom
Not a good fit for
- Readers expecting specific Western medical treatment plans or quick health tips
- Those with no interest at all in traditional culture or philosophical reflection who seek purely narrative reading
Reading tips
- Approach this book as the life sharing of a wise elder rather than a medical guide, and focus on savoring the process of his spiritual transformation
- Read slowly and reflect deeply in light of your own experience; do not rush—many of the book's insights into the classics are worth repeated pondering
- Read alongside some basic original texts of Confucian or Daoist classics, such as passages from The Analects, to deepen your understanding of the author's ideas
About the publisher
Guangxi Normal University Press is a publisher known for literature, foreign literature and history titles. Its 1,175 books in the database show a solid accumulation in classics and prose collections, including foreign literary works such as Les Fleurs du mal: Annotated Poems of Baudelaire, Snow Country, Dubliners and The Wild Palms, as well as modern prose compilations like The Complete Prose of Zhou Zuoren. History and philosophy also hold a notable share, with titles such as Running Dogs: Clerks and Runners in Qing County Yamen and The History and Thought of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom reflecting attention to Qing local administration and modern history. In art literature there is the 16-volume Ten Bamboo Studio Painting and Calligraphy Manual. Its author resources include foreign writers Charles Baudelaire and Yasunari Kawabata, translators and annotators Liu Nanqi and Zou Bo, and scholars such as Zhong Shuhe, Bradly W. Reed and You Chenjun. As public information is limited, this characterization is based only on the books in the database, which together present a profile balancing Chinese and foreign literary classics with academic works in the humanities and social sciences.
Contents
- 版权信息
- 序（一） 仁心·仁术
- 序（二） 上士闻道
- 第一篇 发人深省
- 案例一：晚期肝癌
- 案例二：未满月的“特重病号”
- 案例三：60年中耳炎
- 案例四：重度肝硬化腹水
- 案例五：生育的力量源于安静
- 案例六：久卧伤气，一觉睡成植物人
- 第二篇 阴阳之道
- 案例一：4岁失眠
- 案例二：熬夜失音
- 案例三：冬病夏治
- 案例四：夏病冬治
- 案例五：上病下治
- 案例六：下病上治
- 案例七：快走与慢走
- 第三篇 母子相“医”
- 案例一：从“一尸两命”到母子平安
- 案例二：母慈子孝：反刍与反哺
- 案例三：哺乳的特殊医疗价值
- 案例四：妈妈走路治好了孩子的便秘
- 案例五：婆媳怄气，母寒子黄
- 案例六：原谅婆婆有惊人的医疗力量
- 第四篇 夫妇有别
- 案例一：晚期乳腺癌患者的忏悔
- 案例二：家婆瘫痪，夫妻怄气导致媳妇肺癌
- 案例三：夫妻吵架，儿子癫痫
- 案例四：夫妻恩爱，癌症逆转
- 案例五：妻子冷漠，丈夫“心寒”
- 第五篇 兄友弟恭
- 案例一：兄弟反目，脑积水
- 案例二：兄弟和睦，母亲癌症晚期有好转
- 案例三：执着利益，肝癌复发
- 案例四：姐弟相“医”
- 附录
- 文化医学三问
- 广西师大社《思考文化医学》引热议
- 《中医药文化》系列第五次讲座
- 读懂阴阳，从“心”做人
- 《思考文化医学》：见证文化的医学力量
- 《思考文化医学》新书分享会到场嘉宾听众发言精选
- 跋（一） 我是“文化解剖”最大受益者
- 跋（二） 跟师三年的深切感悟
- 跋（三） 印象·骆老师
- 后记
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About the author
Public information about Luo Jiangxi is currently limited, and his nationality, birth and death years, education, and professional career are not clearly documented. Judging from the holdings, he has only one work, Cultural "Prescriptions", which is classified under medicine, suggesting that his writing concerns the intersection of medicine and culture. The juxtaposition of "prescriptions" and "culture" in the title indicates that the author may attempt to examine health, illness, and healing from a cultural perspective, bringing humanistic reflection into medical topics rather than confining himself to technical accounts of diagnosis and treatment. This approach is relatively uncommon in popular medical writing and carries an interdisciplinary, educational character. Given the limited number of works, it is difficult to assess his overall writing style or intellectual trajectory; readers may turn to Cultural "Prescriptions" to understand his basic concerns, while further biographical information awaits additional public sources.
