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04-02-2008, 08:19 AM
Another great book!
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Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626-2006 (Paperback)
by Volker, Ph.D. Scheid (Author)
Key Phrases: yixue quanshu, gejia xueshuo, zhongyiyao chubanshe, Ding Ganren, Fei Boxiong, Qin Bowei (more...)
Editorial Reviews
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"A superb study that speaks both to medical historians and anthropologists, and to the increasingly globalized communities of contemporary practitioners of Chinese medicine. Scheid s work is unique in integrating a subtle understanding of historical multiplicity with insights based on his own clinical experience." --Charlotte Furth, Professor of Chinese History, University of Southern California
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"At the beginning of this astonishing book, Volker Scheid raises the most fundamental, most daunting questions in medical history: First, what is a medical tradition? What makes us see stable structures in a world where the only constant rule is change? What maintains them in a society where medicine was not an organized profession? What gives birth to such a tradition? How does it die? . . . Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine grapples on every page with these practically unexamined questions, and develops as convincing a set of answers as we are likely to have for a long time." --From the Foreword by Nathan Sivin, Professor of Chinese Culture and the History of Science, University of Pennsylvania
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http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0939616564/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link
_____________________________________
Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine 1626-2006 (Paperback)
by Volker, Ph.D. Scheid (Author)
Key Phrases: yixue quanshu, gejia xueshuo, zhongyiyao chubanshe, Ding Ganren, Fei Boxiong, Qin Bowei (more...)
Editorial Reviews
Review
"A superb study that speaks both to medical historians and anthropologists, and to the increasingly globalized communities of contemporary practitioners of Chinese medicine. Scheid s work is unique in integrating a subtle understanding of historical multiplicity with insights based on his own clinical experience." --Charlotte Furth, Professor of Chinese History, University of Southern California
Review
"At the beginning of this astonishing book, Volker Scheid raises the most fundamental, most daunting questions in medical history: First, what is a medical tradition? What makes us see stable structures in a world where the only constant rule is change? What maintains them in a society where medicine was not an organized profession? What gives birth to such a tradition? How does it die? . . . Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine grapples on every page with these practically unexamined questions, and develops as convincing a set of answers as we are likely to have for a long time." --From the Foreword by Nathan Sivin, Professor of Chinese Culture and the History of Science, University of Pennsylvania
See all Editorial Reviews
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0939616564/ref=sib_dp_pt#reader-link