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050 00 $aR601$b.K36 1983
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100 1 $aKaptchuk, Ted J.,$d1947-
245 14 $aThe web that has no weaver :$bunderstanding Chinese medicine /$cTed J. Kaptchuk.
250 $a1st ed.
260 0 $aNew York :$bCongdon & Weed :$bdistributed by St. Martin's Press,$cc1983.
300 $axxi, 402 p. :$bill. ;$c22 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographies and index.
505 0 $aMedicine East and West : two ways of seeing, two ways of thinking -- Fundamental substances : Qi, blood, Jing, Shen, and fluids -- Organs of the body : the harmonious landscape -- Meridians : the warp and woof -- Origins of disharmony : stormy weather -- Four examinations : signs and symptoms -- Eight principal patterns : the faces of Yin and Yang -- Patterns of the bodily landscape -- Chinese medicine as an art -- Web that has no weaver, and Mount Sinai.
520 $aWhile Western doctors look for disease mechanisms which are the same form person to person, Chinese doctors look for overall patterns of disharmony which are unique to each individual. Ted Kaptchuk, who studied medicine in China, originally intended to translate Chinese medical texts into English, but quickly realized that it would take more than simple translation to convey the meaning of a diagnosis like "damp heat affecting the spleen." Instead, in The Web That Has No Weaver, he explains the theory and philosophy of Chinese medicine, as well as methods of diagnosis and treatment in terms that can be understood by a Western reader. The Chinese emphasis on interconnectedness nad change takes on a very specific character in the context of medicine. When the Chinese physician examines a patient, he or she plans to look at many signs and symptoms and to make of them a diagnosis, to see in them a pattern. Each sign means nothing by itself and acquires meaning only in its relationship to the patient's other signs.
650 0 $aMedicine, Chinese.
650 0 $aMedicine, Chinese$xPhilosophy.
650 2 $aMedicine, East Asian Traditional.
776 08 $iOnline version:$aKaptchuk, Ted J., 1947-$tWeb that has no weaver.$b1st ed.$dNew York : Congdon & Weed : distributed by St. Martin's Press, ©1983$w(OCoLC)763313576
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