Researcher at Johns Hopkins University Releases New Data on Chinese Medicine [Anatomical Retrofitting: Pi (pi) as Spleen and the Persistence of Ontological Ambivalence].

The article from Johns Hopkins University presents new insights into the conceptual debate surrounding the Chinese medicine term. Topics include the phenomenon of "anatomical retrofitting" where contemporary biomedical categories are imposed on historical concepts, the exploration of the term as a dynamic vessel with characteristics of both the humoral spleen and the biomedical spleen, and the ongoing ontological ambivalence between traditional and modern anatomical understandings.