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Chinese Medicine and Healing: An Illustrated History
By TJ Hindrichs
- ISBN
- 9780674047372
- Publisher
- Belknap: Harvard Univ.
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Reviewed on March 8, 2013 | Nonfiction
Hinrichs (history, Cornell Univ.) and Barnes (medical anthropology, Boston Univ. Sch. of Medicine) assembled contributions from 58 interdisciplinary international scholars to produce a rich history of Chinese medicine across 3,000 years. Illustrations, historical documents, and short biographies of transformational figures enliven the topical narratives. Concluding sections examine the current state of Chinese medicine that has spread throughout the world. Contributors describe a distinctive medical culture ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
