What Is Medicine?: Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing

by Paul U. Unschuld

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520257669
• ISBN13: 9780520257665
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"