Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine (Science, Technology and Medicine in Modern History)
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 7, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 277
ISBN-13: 9780333918937
Subjects: Acupuncture; History of specific subjects; History - General History; Medical; USA; General; Philosophy / Mind & Body; Mind & Body; Great Britain; History; Transcultural medical care
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.