Guest guest Posted August 13, 2009 Report Share Posted August 13, 2009 I received an announcement from the University of California Press that, What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing by Paul U. Unschuld will be available in September 2009. I thought that members of this group might be interested in this topic. The book is available from http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/11250.php The blurb is: " What Is Medicine? is the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine from their beginnings in the centuries BCE through present advances in sciences like molecular biology and in Western adaptations of traditional Chinese medicine. " 256 pages, 6 x 9 " , 4 b/w photographs cloth 978-0-520-25765-8 $60.00 Buy Now paper 978-0-520-25766-5 $24.95 Buy Now " What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing is the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine from their beginnings in the centuries BCE through present advances in sciences like molecular biology and in Western adaptations of traditional Chinese medicine. In his revolutionary interpretation of the basic forces that undergird shifts in medical theory, Paul U. Unschuld relates the history of medicine in both Europe and China to changes in politics, economics, and other contextual factors. Drawing on his own extended research of Chinese primary sources as well as his and others' scholarship in European medical history, Unschuld argues against any claims of " truth " in former and current, Eastern and Western models of physiology and pathology. What Is Medicine? makes an eloquent and timely contribution to discussions on health care policies while illuminating the nature of cognitive dynamics in medicine, and it stimulates fresh debate on the essence and interpretation of reality in medicine's attempts to manage the human organism. " Wendy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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