Encounters With Qi: Exploring Chinese Medicine - Hardcover

Eisenberg, David; Wright, Thomas Lee

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393022137 ISBN 13: 9780393022131

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1985

Synopsis

An American medical exchange student describes his impressions of Chinese medicine, discusses herbal remedies, psychic healing, and acupuncture, and suggests possible lessons for doctors in the West

About this title

About the Author:

David Eisenberg lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

From Library Journal:

Eisenberg, a clinical research fellow at Harvard, has had several singular opportunities to observe Chinese medical practices, most notably as the first American medical exchange-student there. In this personal narrative, he introduces practitioners of acupuncture and herbalism, a blind itinerant masseur, psychic children, and master healers who perform incredible feats through the direction of Qi , the vital energy at the core of Chinese medical philosophy. Eisenberg has a keen eye for cultural differences and acknowledges the shortcomings of both ancient Chinese practices and Western allopathic medicine; he sees great potential in the merger of the two. For general and holistic health collections. Judith Eannarino, George Washington Univ. Lib., Washington, D.C.
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About this edition

• Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0393022137
• ISBN 13: 9780393022131
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254