| Description |
1 online resource (xxvi, 500 pages) : illustrations |
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text file rda |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Author Review; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Foreword; Author's Notes; The Pinyin Phonetic Alphabet; Introduction; Half Title; 1. Medicine East and West: Two Ways of Seeing, Two Ways of Thinking and the landscape patterns of nature and humans; 2. The Fundamental Textures: Qi, Blood, Essence, Spirit, and Fluids or the basic ingredients of human life; 3. The Organs of the Body: The Harmonious Landscape and on anatomy and its absence; 4. The Meridians: The Warp and Woof and on acupuncture and herbology. |
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5. Origins of Disharmony: Stormy Weather or when a cause is not a cause; 6. The Four Examinations: Signs and Symptoms and Aristotle and Lao Tzu revisited; 7. The Eight Principal Patterns: The Faces of Yin and Yang the patterns' basic texture and composition; 8. The Patterns of the Human Landscape the details of the clinical scene; 9. Chinese Medicine as an Art or on the Penetrating Divine Illumination; 10. The Web That Has No Weaver-and Mount Sinai or on the location of truth; A. The Stages of Disease: A Series of Clinical Scenes; B. Yang Organs in Disharmony; C. Pulses Revisited. |
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D. The Curious Organs E. The Scientific Encounter with East Asian Medicine: Efficacy and Adverse Effects; F. The Five Phases (Wu Xing); G. Historical Bibliography: Links in the Chain of Transmission; H. Selected Bibliography; Index. |
| Summary |
Chinese medicine is a healing art that has survived and continues to thrive in East Asia and is increasingly becoming a global resource. The Web That Has No Weaver is the classic English language introductory text that explains how medicine so rooted the archaic past can be relevant to modern health care. The book demystifies the worldview of Chine. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 465-481) and index. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
| Subject |
Medicine, Chinese.
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Medicine, Chinese -- Philosophy.
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Medicine, Chinese Traditional. |
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Medicine, Chinese -- Philosophy. |
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Medicine, Chinese. |
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Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9781483546278 : $9.99 |
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1483546276 : $9.99 |
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