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Kaptchuk, Ted J., 1947-
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Medicine, Chinese.
Medicine, Chinese -- Philosophy.
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The web that has no ...
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The web that has no weaver [electronic resource] : understanding Chinese medicine / Ted J. Kaptchuk.
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Kaptchuk, Ted J., 1947-
Chicago, Ill : Contemporary Books, c2000.
Subjects
Medicine, Chinese.
Medicine, Chinese -- Philosophy.
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9780809228409 (electronic bk.)
0809228408 (electronic bk.)
9780795312649 (electronic bk.)
0795312644 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xxvi, 500 p.) : ill.
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[Rev. ed., newly expanded and updated].
Contents:
Foreword / Margaret Caudill -- Foreword / Andrew Weil -- The Pinyin Phonetic Alphabet -- 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 -- App. A. The Stages of Disease: A Series of Clinical Scenes -- App. B. Yang Organs in Disharmony -- App. C. Pulses Revisited -- App. D. The Curious Organs -- App. E. The Scientific Encounter with East Asian Medicine: Efficacy and Adverse Effects -- App. F. The Five Phases (Wu Xing) -- App. G. Historical Bibliography: Links in the Chain of Transmission.
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