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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Traditional Chinese medicine is the most vibrant and lively of the tradi tional medical systems still existing. Over a quarter of the world’s pop ulation turns to Chinese medicine for a significant portion of the health care and the numbers are increasing. Unlike the other trad tional medicines TCM has proven so vibrant that it has spread f beyond its cultural borders and taken root right around the globe. Part of the reason for this expansion is that Chinese medicine and Western medicine are not in competition. Areas covered in Western medicine are often those for which Chinese medicine has little to offer the humble pap smear for example provides a far earlier indication of incipient cervical cancer than a standard Chinese diagnosis would offer. In other words we cannot do without modern medicine. On the other hand deficiencies and problems with modern Western medicine have become increasingly obvious over the past several decades and are well described in its own literature and in the observations of social scientists. To a certain extent the problems arise from the very factors that underlie its strength: the ability to analyze molecular and cellular changes and to design therapeutic interventions that act at the same level. Because of this focus upon the microscopic level of disease how- ever it is virtually impossible (and in its own terms meaningless) to consider the variety of factors that influence the daily functioning of the individual. Despite exhortations to family physicians to consider the whole person’. Western medicine is simply not designed for this. (MP)