The practice of Chinese Medicine,
in particular of acupuncture, is widespread in the industrialized countries of the West. This book elucidates the basic elements of Chinese medicine from its beginnings in Chinese antiquity to the present. It points out characteristics of traditional Chinese medical thought and offers a comprehensive discussion of the background of the current interest in Chinese medicine in the West, as well as of problems associated with this phenomenon.


Autor:       Paul U. Unschuld  
Verlag:      Paradigm Publications, Brookline, Mass., USA  
ISBN:        0-912111-55-0
Druck:       1998