Research Catalog

Title

Contemporary Chinese medicine and acupuncture / Claire Monod Cassidy ; series editor, Marc S. Micozzi.

Author

Cassidy, Claire Monod.

Publication

New York : Churchill Livingstone, [2002], ©2002.

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Description

xviii, 436 pages : illustrations; 26 cm.

Series Statement

Medical guides to complementary & alternative medicine

Uniform Title

Medical guides to complementary and alternative medicine.

Subject

• Acupuncture Therapy
• Acupuncture
• Medicine, Chinese Traditional
• Medicine, Chinese

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. The Theory and Modalities of Chinese Medicine. 1. Introduction / Claire M. Cassidy. 2. The Theory of Oriental Medicine / Peter Eckman. 3. Diagnosis / Zoe Brenner. 4. Acupuncture and Moxibustion / Grant Zhang. 5. Chinese Herbal Medicine / Tao Wang. 6. Other Treatment Modalities: Diet, Bodywork, Qi Gong / Paulette McMillan, Bryn Clark and Jean Edelen -- II. Delivering Care. 7. Putting It All Together: Practicing Oriental Medicine / Dan Kenner. 8. Grand Rounds / Anonymous (1822) / Carol Kari and Susan Cushing / [et al.]. 9. Inside an Acupuncture Detoxification Clinic / Martha Hare. 10. A Day in the Life: Practitioners Reflect on Their Daily Lives / Jane A. Grissmer, W. Jumbe Allen and Jingyun Gao / [et al.] -- III. Research Data. 11. The Physiology of Acupuncture / Richard Hammerschlag. 12. What Patients Say About Chinese Medicine / Claire M. Cassidy and Mitra C. Emad. 13. Treatment of Pain by Acupuncture / Stephen Birch.
• 14. Acupuncture in the Treatment of Addictions / Michael O. Smith and James C. Butler-Arkow -- App. Auricular Acupuncture. 15. Treating Respiratory Disease with Acupuncture / Kim A. Jobst. 16. Oriental Medicine for Digestive Disorders / David L. Diehl. 17. Acupuncture in Women's Reproductive Health / Valentin Tureanu and Luminita Tureanu. 18. Acupuncture in Depression and Mental Illness / Rosa N. Schnyer and John J. B. Allen. 19. Acupuncture and Laser Acupuncture to Treat Paralysis in Stroke, Cerebral Palsy, Spinal Cord Injury, and Bell's Palsy / Margaret A. Naeser -- App. Acupuncture Points Used for Acupuncture Treatments of Stroke -- IV. The Profession of Oriental Medicine. 20. The Professionalization of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine in the United States / Barbara B. Mitchell. 21. Referral / Claire M. Cassidy -- App. NIH Consensus Statement on Acupuncture.

ISBN

0443065896

LCCN

2001053906

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Columbia University Libraries