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Title: Encounters With Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine by David Eisenberg, Thomas Lee Wright ISBN: 0-393-31213-5 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: August, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: INtegrative medicine- isn't about time?
Comment: Dr. Eisenberg is one of the poineers of the Integartive medicine in US ( which is a fussion between the conventional and alternative therapies). Western medicine has achieved things that seemed imposible 1-2 centuries ago, but it seems to be stuck with its overly rationalistic approach toward disease...is the body functioning depending from the mind? Can attitude affect one's well- being? Could ther e be somthing that we still do not know about human physiology? Western science is just entering the realm of mind/body medicine( neuroscience), while some nations (like Chinese) have millenia long history of practicing and perfecting those methods of treatment....so why not learn to use those methods? Why not integrate them into conventional western medicine? Partly because the public and the medical proffessionals are not aware of all those options, and also because there is still some stigma in medical society about the alternative practices. Dr. Eisengberg's book disspels part of that stigma in a very easy to read, livelly and plesant style...
Rating: 5
Summary: A pilgrimage for new solutions for Western medicine
Comment: David Eisenberg, MD, embarked upon a pilgrimage under the auspices of Harvard to China to see if ancient medical alternatives hold new promise for Western medicine. His entrepreneurial approach is admirable and opens new possibilities for the West that have been already embraced by hundreds of millions of Chinese in some cases for many centuries. The shift in interest to Oriental medicine in the quest for new alternatives commands attention. The most critical asset for Western minds viewing Oriental medicine would seem to be an open mind. Yes, the West has made great medical strides but we don't have all the answers. Why should Western bias pre-empt potentially viable solutions that have attained credence through the tests of time and strength of following elsewhere? The Afterword in this edition suggests that Americans by the tens of millions are searching for new options, especially when patients face chronic pain thwarted by Western approaches. I congratulate Dr. Eisenberg for his creative approach and imagination and hope that appropriate testing protocol will help validate those remedies that have the greatest potential in the U.S. and elsewhere. The potential upside benefit for the quality of life of millions should drive progress on this frontier emerging in the West.
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Title: The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine by Ted J. Kaptchuk ISBN: 0809228408 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Healing and the Mind by Bill Moyers ISBN: 0385476876 Publisher: Main Street Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1995 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Monster : Autobiography of an L.A. Gang Member, The by Sanyika Shakur, Monster Kody Scott ISBN: 0140232257 Publisher: Pearson Addison Wesley Pub. Date: 01 January, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Voices of Qi: An Introductory Guide to Traditional Chinese Medicine by Alex Holland, Fred Lanphear ISBN: 1556433263 Publisher: North Atlantic Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: From Chocolate to Morphine : Everything You Need to Know About Mind-Altering Drugs by Winifred Rosen, Andrew T. Weil ISBN: 0395911524 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Co Pub. Date: 20 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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