Acupuncture, Expertise, and Cross-Cultural Medicine (Science, Technology, and Medicine in Modern History)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: June 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780312237615
Subjects: Acupuncture; Great Britain; History; Transcultural medical care; Medical
First sentence: In the 1840s with Britain teetering on the brink of empire, G. Tradescant Lay's pleas for a sensitive and receptive approach to what were rapidly becoming 'mere' colonial cultures fell on deaf ears.