Description: Further DetailsTitle: What Is Medicine?Condition: NewSubtitle: Western and Eastern Approaches to HealingISBN-10: 0520257650EAN: 9780520257658ISBN: 9780520257658Publisher: University of California PressFormat: HardbackRelease Date: 09/08/2009Description: "What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing" is the first comparative history of two millennia of Western and Chinese medicine from their beginnings in the centuries BCE through present advances in sciences like molecular biology and in Western adaptations of traditional Chinese medicine. In his revolutionary interpretation of the basic forces that undergird shifts in medical theory, Paul U. Unschuld relates the history of medicine in both Europe and China to changes in politics, economics, and other contextual factors. Drawing on his own extended research of Chinese primary sources as well as his and others' scholarship in European medical history, Unschuld argues against any claims of 'truth' in former and current, Eastern and Western models of physiology and pathology. "What Is Medicine?" makes an eloquent and timely contribution to discussions on health care policies while illuminating the nature of cognitive dynamics in medicine, and it stimulates fresh debate on the essence and interpretation of reality in medicine's attempts to manage the human organism.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 499gAuthor: Paul U. UnschuldTranslator: Karen ReimersContributor: Karen Reimers (Translated by)Genre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, MedicineRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: What Is Medicine?
Title: What Is Medicine?
Subtitle: Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing
ISBN-10: 0520257650
EAN: 9780520257658
ISBN: 9780520257658
Release Date: 09/08/2009
Release Year: 2009
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Translator: Karen Reimers
Contributor: Karen Reimers (Translated by)
Genre: Society & Culture
Topic: Medicine
Number of Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Medicine? : Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing
Publisher: University of California Press
Subject: Alternative & Complementary Medicine, General, Anthropology / General, History
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2009
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 17.6 Oz
Author: Paul U. Unschuld
Subject Area: Social Science, Medical
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Hardcover
