Energy Medicine East and West: A Natural History of QI
"The book also includes insightful chapters on qigong,craniosacral biodynamics, TaiJi, Shiatsu, all extensively referenced."Donkey Press, Spring 2011"Mayor and Micozzi'sEnergy Medicine East and Westprovides us with some wonderfully diverse writings on qi from multiple perspectives and from some fine thinkers. I am not aware of any other text that fills this fascinating and much-needed niche."Charles Buck, Journal of Chinese Medicine (2011) 97: 30-1"Energy Medicine East and Westis a very comprehensive overview of all standard modern forms of energy healing. Its six sections contains clear explanations of these techniques, as well as attempts to clarify and explain them. The contributors are from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from Qigong experts through physiologists, physical therapists and complementary medicine researchers to acupuncturists, and all are eminent in their field.Energy Medicine East and West.is a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of its subject. I would recommend it both as interesting and informative reading, and also as a useful reference book for anyone working in this field."Melanie Hunter, Journal of the Acupuncture Association of Chartered Physiotherapists (2012) Spring:125-6"In Asian medicine, no concept holds a more central or more enigmatic position than that of "qi."The purpose of the text, in the best tradition of the liberal arts, is to engage the reader in the millennia-old conversation about qi without being apologetic and without shying away from the controversies stemming from the philosophical dissonance that often rattles with our modern biomedical paradigm. This text presents essays, some of which tackle qi from the viewpoint of hard science, theoretical physics, and bioelectrics, and some of which look at cross-cultural anthropology, human development, and comparative esoteric physiology. For the reader interested in the process of the conversation, this is a full buffet of ideas over which to linger.Overall,Energy Medicine East and Westoffers the reader an intellectually stimulating, poly-cultural, open-minded, philosophical, and scientific exploration of qi from antiquity to the present. ... This is neither a training manual nor a technical guide to practice but rather an effort to raise the level of conversation about qi to one that takes into account a very broad context and multiple viewpoints. It is a collection to chew on over time rather than read in a single sitting, and it can be read in the order it is arranged or with some spontaneity."David W. Miller, The American Acupuncturist (2012) 59: 30-31"Energy Medicine East and Westis a very comprehensive overview of all standard modern forms of energy healings. Its six sections contains clear explanation of thse techniques, as well as attempts to clarify and explain them. The contributors  are from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from Qigong experts through physiologists, physical therapists and complementary medicine researchers to acupuncturists, and all are eminent in their field....Energy Medicine East and Westis fascinating in parts and frustrating in others, but overall, the book is a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of it's subject. I would recommend it both as interesting and informative reading, and also as a useful reference book for anyone working in this field."Journal of the Acupuncture Assoication of Chartered Physiotherapists, Spring 2012