Idea of the body in Occident and East

To doctor Electra Peluffo it surprised, for his years of study in the field of the Acupuncture realized in Peking (1964-1967 and 1982), the conception and consistent description of the existing human body in the Chinese Traditional medicine, which in numerous aspects was not corresponding to what he had learned in the Licentiate of western Medicine (1953-1961). Both Medicines have rested secularmente on concrete anatomical concepts and also abstract, fancied: a characteristic that China preserves still because it describes and practises the conceptual notions of the body initiated centuries before our age. In biomedicine these notions also millennial, they composed a knowledge - now discarded - which stamp remains. This laborious process of reception of different ways of seeing and of valuing structures and organic functions, led him to a comparative attitude which first target was to understand to be able to apply the Chinese approaches to the professional exercise.

The practical experience transformed the purpose of his collation into a wider interest: to know and to explain the conceptual differences of the origin of both anatomies that continue different bases. Fruit of such an investigation, there was born this book that covers summarily the preSocratic anatomical ideas and grecohelenísticas to continue with a detailed description of the contemporary oriental conception of the body, comparing in possible similarities and differences between both conceptual ideas and contributing proper reflections on this matter.

Peluffo, Electra. - Idea of the body in Occident and East. Kapok tree Editions. Madrid, 2009

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