Ted J. Kaptchuk
Auteur van The Web That Has No Weaver : Understanding Chinese Medicine
Over de Auteur
Ted J. Kaptchuk is associate director of the Center for Alternative Medicine Research and Education at Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, he is also an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School
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The authors ask such fundamental questions as:
What is illness?
What effect does the mind have on the body?
Where do the various medical systems come from?
How do they work?
Can these systems be combined and can they cooperate?
The Healing Arts also answers such questions as:
How do shamans and witch doctors heal?
Chiropractors?
Osteopaths?
Homeopaths?
Herbalists?
Acupuncturists?
Surgeons?
Religioius heaers?
Medical doctors?
Psychologists?
Navaho chanters?
A marvelous introduction to all medical systems ancient and modern, scientific and complementary, The Healing Arts is the best guide available for anyone interested in the developing state of medicine and health and in the ongoing search for cure.
Ted Kaptchuk graduated from Columbia Uinversity and received his Doctorate in Oriental Medicine from Macau Institute of Chinese Medicine. He is currently the Clinical Director of the Pain and Stress Relief Clinic at Boston's Lemuel Shatuck Hospital. He has studied medical history and medical anthropology extensively at Harvard. Michael Croucher is a television producer and director with the BBC in London. He is currently working on a news series on mental health.
Contents
Preface
Introduction
The web that has no weaver
The mystery of illness
Hands on
Nature's green pharmacy
Enter magic bullets
The mind wants back in
The return of ritual
The open clinic
The lost art of moving
The lost art of eating
Epilogue
Further reading (bibliography)
Index… (meer)