SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL RESEARCH COMMITTEE ON SAFETY AND HEALTH IN EXTRACTIVE INDUSTRIES
Western medicine and the Chinese vision
Papers and debates, 18 November 1999
SUMMARY
List of participants
Introduction : Why such a symposium ?      M. COCUDE 

1st part Western medicine

Pneumoconiosis and associated pathologies       D. LAFON 
1945-2000 half a century of diagnostic and therapeutic progress    M. MARQUET 
Respiratory rehabilitation         J-C. PUJET 
Present research and prospects        D. LAFON 
   Debate 
   Conclusion by M. MARQUET 

 2nd part Chinese medicine

Approaching Chinese medicine from an anthropological stance      T. HOR 
Clinical experience          P. WANG 
   Debate
Presentation of the main aspects of Chinese medicine studied    M. COCUDE 

Acupuncture 
Practice of acupuncture at the surgery        O. DUHAMEL 
Practice of acupuncture in functional readaptation     P. SAUTREUIL 
The scientific viewpoint on acupuncture, consensus conférence in 1997 in the U.S.A. L. KOCH 
   Debate 
   Conclusion
by M. KOCH 

Qi gong
Videocassette: qi gong helping in everyday life M. KOCH 
Videocassette: therapeutic qi gong       O. DUHAMEL 
Bibliographic overview on qi gong        M. COCUDE 
An experiment of treating silicotics by qi gong  B. MAHIEU 
   Debate 
   Conclusion
by M. COCUDE 

The Pharmacopoeia
The pharmacopoeia in Chinese medicine : General presentation, case of pneumoconiosis  P. WANG 
Recent work in China on pneumoconiosis       P. WANG 
   Debate 
   Conclusion
by M. OBRINGER 

Closure of the symposium