A Guide to Chinese Medicine on the Internet
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (626 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0789032007 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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"Useful Guide" according to OnceMore. I found this guide while conducting my own research on Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). According to the author, although there are consumer protection groups such as QuackWatch, American Accreditation HealthCare Commission [], and Health on the Net Foundation that hold websites providing health- and medicine-related information to quality and ethical standards, these groups do not tend to review very many websites, so this guide should still be of interest to many people, including researchers,
A Guide to Chinese Medicine on the Internet frees readers from having to sift through countless websites to find up-to-date, high quality, reliable information on all types of Chinese medicine. Guidelines are provided for searching, cataloging, and evaluating websites concerned with Chinese medicine, based on the author’s research and personal experience as a practitioner and user of Chinese medicines.. This handy resource provides an introduction to the terms and philosophies of Chinese medicine in addition to an extensive categorized listing of online sites related to Chinese culture and medicine, complete with a brief description of each site’s content
He has written several publications on both the online resources of Chinese medicine, and the history of Chinese medicine.. He received his PhD, MPhil, and BA all from the Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include the history of Chinese medicine and online information on Chinese medicine. Ka wai Fan, PhD, is a full-time lecturer in the Chinese Civilization Center, C
No one has cast their net so widely in the seas of European and Asian websites related to Chinese medicine; nor has anyone reviewed the material so carefully. AN ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD for students, researchers, and professors and as such should be published. Finally someone has taken the time to surf the web for all sites related to Chinese medicine, organized them into clear categories, and evaluated their content for future users. This book is more than the yellow pages for Chinese medicine on the web; it is a critical annotated bibliography of nearly all internet resources about the subject. Any reader will be pleased to have him at the helm to navigate a course through a veritable storm of random information on Chinese medicine on the web. The introduction alone could stand as an article on the changing definitions of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) over the past decade and how Chinese