HKU Bulletin June 2013 (Vol. 14 No. 3)

Cover Story For many decades, modern, Western-style medicine has been the standard for healthcare around the world, offering cures and treatments based on extensive trials, and careful dissections of the causes and effects. But increasingly researchers are looking at a tradition with a very different approach. In Chinese medicine, it’s not the parts but the whole that matter, and it is not just a medicine but a culture and philosophy. HKU and its researchers, located at the crossroads of East and West, are drawing on their unique position to bridge the two and move towards integrating Chinese and Western medicine and therapies into a ‘one-world medicine’ that is based on the best of both traditions. A Balance of Traditions 05