Energy Medicine East and West: a natural history of qi

420 Pages·2011·5.12 MB·English

EndorsEmEnts
“This wonderful book has assembled some 25 authors expressing well a view of qi
which entirely does justice to its nature. Meticulously referenced, it is a milestone to
set beside Maciocia’s Foundations of Chinese Medicine and Deadman’s Manual
of Acupuncture. Here at last are the beginnings of a true science of qi…. There is
truly nothing like it in contemporary literature. Alone, it lays the foundation for the
beginnings of a modern science of qi.”
Richard Bertschinger
Acupuncturist and translator, Somerset, UK.
Titles include The Golden Needle (Churchill Livingstone, 1991) and
The Secret of Everlasting Life (Singing Dragon, 2010)
“This book offers a timely and thorough examination of the experience and nature of
qi, including a series of fascinating philosophical discussions with a direct application
to our patients. Required reading for acupuncture practitioners seeking to justify and
clarify their clinical reasoning.”
Val Hopwood PhD FCSP
Physiotherapist, acupuncturist, researcher and educator
Course director, MSc Acupuncture, Coventry University, UK
Co-author, Acupuncture in Neurological Conditions (Churchill Livingstone, 2010) and
other acupuncture textbooks for physical therapists
“Over the last decade most books on Asian medicine paid tribute to the aura of
evidence-based medicine – experience counted little, RCTs were convincing. This book,
at last, returns to an old tradition of debate, opening up quite a few new horizons.
Reading it, my striving for knowledge was married with enjoyment and happiness.
This book made me happy!”
Thomas Ots MD PhD
Medical acupuncturist specialising in psychiatry, Graz, Austria
Editor-in-Chief, Deutsche Zeitschrift für Akupunktur
Author of ‘The silenced body’ (1994)
“To simply review the chapter headings is to know the truly remarkable expanse of this
book ……. a wonderful bridge between the mysteries of the East and the sciences of the
West ….. well documented, well written, and enlarging both. Enlightening …. nicely
depicts outstanding advances in energy psychotherapeutics, thus ultimately helping
to move forward the human condition.
Maurie D Pressman MD
Emeritus Clinical Professor of Psychiatry,
Temple University School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA;
Emeritus Chairman of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein Medical Center, Philadelphia PA;
past President, International Society for the Study of Subtle Energies and
Energy Medicine, Lafayette, CO
“… a major advance in the study of qi and related forms of ‘energy medicine,’ both in
and beyond the East Asian cultural context…..bringing together such a wide range of
scholars and practitioners, providing much the most serious and thorough overview of
the area yet available in English.”
Professor Geoffrey Samuel
Director, Research Group on the Body, Health and Religion (BAHAR), Cardiff University
Author, The Origins of Yoga and Tantra (Cambridge University Press, 2008)
ENERGY
MEDICINE
East and West
Dedication
To those who have taught me to appreciate the energies of life, in particular Herbert L Weaver,
Gerda Boyesen, J R Worsley and the Venerable Lama Chime Rimpoche.
David Mayor, MA, BAc
To the philanthropists of the Bravewell Collaborative for Integrative Medicine who taught me it is
better to be their neighbor than their employee.
Marc S Micozzi, MD, PhD
Commissioning Editor: Claire Wilson
Development Editor: Catherine Jackson
Project Manager: Beula Christopher
Designer: Kirsteen Wright
Illustration Manager: Merlyn Harvey
Illustrator: Cactus
ENERGY
MEDICINE
East and West
A NATURAL HISTORY OF QI
Edited by
David Mayor
MA BAc
Acupuncturist, Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire
Research Associate, Department of Physiotherapy,
University of Hertfordshire, UK
Marc S Micozzi
MD PhD
Adjunct Professor, Department of Medicine
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Georgetown University,
Washington, DC, USA
Foreword by
James L Oschman
PhD
President, Nature’s Own Research Association
Dover, NH, USA
Author of Energy Medicine: The scientific basis
EDINBURGH LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PHILADELPHIA ST LOUIS
SYDNEY TORONTO 2011
Dedication
To those who have taught me to appreciate the energies of life, in particular Herbert L Weaver,
Gerda Boyesen, J R Worsley and the Venerable Lama Chime Rimpoche.
David Mayor, MA, BAc
To the philanthropists of the Bravewell Collaborative for Integrative Medicine who taught me it is
better to be their neighbor than their employee.
Marc S Micozzi, MD, PhD
Commissioning Editor: Claire Wilson
Development Editor: Catherine Jackson
Project Manager: Beula Christopher
Designer: Kirsteen Wright
Illustration Manager: Merlyn Harvey
Illustrator: Cactus
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