Tracing the Narrative Medicine Thought of Traditional Chinese Medicine Etiology:Exploration of the Three Causes Theory of the Yongjia Medical School
Wang Jia-wei
Lan Qing
Li Ying-ying
Abstract：Relationality,empathy and negative emotions are the three fucuses in narrative medicine.The Yongjia Medical School proposes that the causes of diseases can be categorized into three types,namely"internal causes","external causes",and"causes neither internal nor external".A comparative study revealed that the etiological concept of the"Three Causes Theory"proposed by the Yongjia Medical School demonstrates a bottom-up logical resonance with the Triple Focuses Theory in narrative medicine.The ideas of"internal causes","external causes,"and"causes neither internal nor external"in the"Three Causes Theory"correspond to the emphasis on relationality,empathy,and negative emotions in narrative medicine,respectively.It is evident that as early as in the Southern Song Dynasty,medical practitioners of the Yongjia Medical School had already begun the practice of narrative medicine.Through the practice of tracing the origins of the"Three Causes",an implicit community in narrative sense has been constructed between doctors and patients,thus achieving harmony in the doctor-patient relationship of traditional Chinese medicine.This discovery provides a new perspective for the interpretation of narrative medicine in China and the integration of medical humanistic thoughts between China and the West.
Keywords：Traditional Chinese medicineEtiologyNarrative medicineYongjia Medical SchoolThree Causes Theory
Publication Date：2025-05-20
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：6( 36-41 )