Introduction to English Terminology of Chinese Medicine (Chinese Medicine Language Series) (English and Chinese Edition)

Building on their A practical dictionary of Chinese medicine (Paradigm,1998), Wiseman and Ye (Chang Gung U., Taiwan) introduce English-speaking students with some familiarity with Chinese to the basic concepts, terminology, and written characters of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for clinical or translation purposes. Includes exercises with an answer key; appended material (e.g., on the Piny<-i>n transcription system and pronunciation); and a lengthy index of TCM terms in English, Chinese, and Piny<-i>n. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Nigel Wiseman, a native of Great Britain, received his bachelor's degree in Spanish and German interpreting and translation in 1976 from Herriot Watt University in Edinburgh and his doctorate in 2000 from the University of Exeter. He has lived in Taiwan for the last sixteen years, where he teaches Chinese medical English at Chang Gung University. He is the author of a number of Chinese medical works including Fundamentals of Chinese Medicine, A Practical Dictionary of Chinese Medicine, and An English-Chinese Chinese-English Dictionary of Chinese Medicine.

Feng Ye, a native of Taiwan, graduated from the Chinese Medical School of China Medical College, Taiwan, in 1994. He received his master's degree from the Institute of Chinese Medical Sciences in 1997 and holds R.O.C. licenses in both Chinese and Western medicine. Currently, he is chief resident doctor in the Chinese Internal Medicine Department of Chang Gung University Hospital and a lecturer in Chinese medical diagnostics. His special fields are pulse theory, the Shang Han Lun, and acupuncture.