615.89/Kaptchuk
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- Subjects
- Published
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Chicago, Ill :
Contemporary Books
c2000.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
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Ted J. Kaptchuk, 1947-
(-)
- Edition
- [Rev. ed., newly expanded and updated]
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 500 p. : ill. ; 21 cm
- Bibliography
- "Selected bibliography": p. 465-481.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780809228409
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Foreword
- Author's Note
- The Pinyin Phonetic Alphabet
- Introduction to New Edition
- 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
- 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
- Appendixes
- A.. The Stages of Disease: A Series of Clinical Scenes
- B.. Yang Organs in Disharmony
- C.. Pulses Revisited
- 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