Handbook of Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chinese Medicine: An Integrated Approach - Softcover

Yu, Jin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0939616289 ISBN 13: 9780939616282

Publisher: Eastland Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Drawing on four decades of experience as a clinician, researcher, and teacher of obstetrics and gynecology, the author provides a handbook for practitioners that integrates both Chinese and Western medical knowledge.

About this title

About the Author:

Yu Jin, M.D., is professor of obstetrics and gynecology at the OB/GYN Hospital affiliated with Shanghai Medical University, and is director of the gynecologic division of the Institute of Integrated Traditional and Western Medicine at that institution. She has served as a visiting professor at the Chinese national laboratories of reproductive medicine, neurobiology, and molecular biology.

Throughout her distinguished career, Dr. Yu has focussed on traditional Chinese medicine and its integration with Western biomedicine. She has received numerous honors for her clinical research in reproductive endocrinology, obstetrics, and gynecology, and is a prolific writer, having authored over seventy scientific papers and more than a dozen books in various languages. Dr. Yu is also the principal editor of the obstetric and gynecologic section of Collection of Chinese Medical Secret Formulas.

Dr. Yu presented the evidence supporting the use of acupuncture in the treatment of gynecologic, endocrine, and reproductive indications at the 1997 National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference on Acupuncture in Washington, D.C.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Chinese

About this edition

• Publisher: Eastland Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0939616289
• ISBN 13: 9780939616282
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 212