Integrating East Asian medicine into contemporary healthcare
By: edited by Volker Scheid, Hugh MacPherson ; foreword, Ted J. Kaptchuk
Publisher: Churchill Livingstone Elsevier
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780702030215
Subjects: Chinese Medicine; Integrative medicine; Traditional medicine; Integrative Medicine; East Asian Traditional Medicine
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Defining best practice or cultivating best practitioners / Volker Scheid; title: Pulse-touching : qualities and the best practitioner / Judith Farquhar; title: Multiple enactments of Chinese medicine / Trina Ward; title: Four snapshots in the life of language in Chinese medicine / Sonya Pritzker; title: International standardisation : what does it mean for East Asian medicines? / Chris Zaslawski, Myeong Soo Lee; title: Standardizing tongue diagnosis with image processing technology : essential tension between authenticity and innovation / Sean Lei, Chiao-ling Lin, Hen-hong Chang; title: Efficacy, effectiveness and efficiency / Claudia Witt, Ted Kaptchuk, Hugh MacPherson, Ayo Wahlberg; title: Constructing an evidence base for East Asian medicine / Andrew Flower, Volker Scheid, George Lewith; title: Treatment evaluation : what can be learnt from anthropology / Elisabeth Hsu; title: Standardisation and endangered practices : challenging the assumptions of beneficence of health care integration / Paul Kadetz; title: Branding Indian aromatherapy : transnational healthcare and the making of healing practices / Laurent Pordi; title: Cuba / Vivienne Lo.