| Description |
1 online resource (v, 237 pages) |
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data file |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary |
This book provides a historically, socially, and culturally-contextualized portrayal of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) as a complementary and alternative medical profession in the United States. Through interviewing TCM practitioners, observing in TCM schools and clinics, and referencing on classical Chinese medical and philosophical sources, the author explores the spiritual aspect of TCM and how "health" is understood and achieved in the TCM clinics. |
| Contents |
Contextualization -- History of local TCM -- Medical training and identity formation -- TCM healers in the Chinese community -- TCM as complementary medicine -- TCM as alternative medicine -- Creating a space for psychic healing -- Going to the culturally authentic -- Environmentalism and lifestyle changes -- The happenings in an acupuncture clinic -- The embodied spirituality of Qi -- Ideal body and the concept of health -- Concluding analysis. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Alternative medicine -- United States.
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Alternative medicine. |
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United States. |
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Medicine, Chinese -- United States.
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Medicine, Chinese. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Wu, Emily S., 1978- Traditional Chinese medicine in the United States. Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, ©2013 9780739173664 (DLC) 2013012284 (OCoLC)830813645 |
| ISBN |
9780739173671 (electronic book) |
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0739173677 (electronic book) |
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1299638163 (electronic book) |
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9781299638167 (electronic book) |
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9780739173664 |
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0739173669 |
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9781498515108 |
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149851510X |
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