Acupuncture in Practice, 1st Edition

Case History Insights from the West
Editors :
Hugh MacPherson & Ted J. Kaptchuk
Written by THE leading lights in the field of integrating acupuncture into a Western medical system, this book bridges the gap between the theoretical foundations of acupuncture and its application in a modern Western clinical context. Each case hist ...view more
Written by THE leading lights in the field of integrating acupuncture into a Western medical system, this book bridges the gap between the theoretical foundations of acupuncture and its application in a modern Western clinical context. Each case history focuses on the complexities and dilemmas of treatment that are tackled, providing valuable insights by experienced practitioners into the management of a course of acupuncture treatment.
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Written by THE leading lights in the field of integrating acupuncture into a Western medical system, this book bridges the gap between the theoretical foundations of acupuncture and its application in a modern Western clinical context. Each case history focuses on the complexities and dilemmas of treatment that are tackled, providing valuable insights by experienced practitioners into the management of a course of acupuncture treatment.

Key Features
  • written by THE leading lights in the field
  • helps bridge the difficult gap between acupucture theory from a TCM perspective, and its application in a modern context for practitioners of conventional medicine
  • contains useful case histories to make the content easy to understand and to enable the reader to apply the knowledge within the book to real life clinical situations
  • no other book of its kind has the quality and depth of information detailed here

    Author Information
    Edited by Hugh MacPherson, PhD, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK and Ted J. Kaptchuk, OMD, Associate Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA