Black Beryl

Meta-Practice, with Volker Scheid


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Today I sit down with Volker Scheid, an interdisciplinary scholar and longtime practitioner of Chinese medicine. Together, we take an intellectual deep dive into his thoughts about the importance of blurring disciplinary boundaries and how “meta-practice” can make sense of the many different kinds of Chinese medicines. Along the way, Volker and I discuss the commensurability of Chinese medicine and biomedicine, the importance of connecting the self with the ten thousand things, and how premodern ideas can be the basis of a new politics for modern times.

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Resources mentioned in this episode:

  • Volker’s website 
  • Volker Scheid, Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis (2002)
  • Volker Scheid, Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626-2006 (2007)
  • Paul Unschuld, Chinese Medicine: A History of Ideas (2010)
  • Annemarie Mol, The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (2003)
  • Pierce Salguero, “A Polyperspectival Asian Medicine Practice” (2020)
  • Slavoj Žižek, “From Western Marxism to Western Buddhism” (2001)
  • Volker’s blog
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