A Guide to Chinese Medicine on the Internet

by Ka Wai Fan

Overview

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. 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. 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135696375
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	10/30/2008
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	811 KB

About the Author

Ka wai Fan, PhD, is a full-time lecturer in the Chinese Civilization Center, City University of Hong Kong; an honorary adjunct assistant professor in the School of Chinese Medicine at the Chinese University of Hong Kong; and honorary visiting fellow (2006-2009) at the Center for Traditional Chinese Science and Civilization in The Institute for the History of Natural Science, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing. He received his PhD, MPhil, and BA all from the Department of History, Chinese University of Hong Kong. He worked as an assistant professor in the Institute of History, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan. His research interests include the history of Chinese medicine and online information on Chinese medicine. He has written several publications on both the online resources of Chinese medicine, and the history of Chinese medicine.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction Chapter 2. Portals and General Web Sites Chapter 3. Organizations Chapter 4. Libraries Chapter 5. Schools Chapter 6. Journals Chapter 7. Databases, Bibliographies and Electrical Texts Chapter 8. History and Philosophy Index Reference Notes Included

What People are Saying About This

Elisabeth Hsu

AN INVALUABLE RESOURCE TO ANY PRACTITIONER, LIBRARIAN, OR RESEARCHER. (Dr. Elisabeth Hsu, Reader in Social Anthropology, University of Oxford)

Marta Hanson

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. 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. 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 medicine fits into the CAM framework in the United States and Europe. The author also introduces a valuable method for evaluating internet resources called “CARS” that teachers on all levels may well want their students to memorize: Credibility, Accuracy, Reasonableness, and Support. Now that more and more people rely on the internet for knowledge and information on health care and medical treatments, skills for evaluating the trustworthiness, accuracy, impartiality, and documentation of internet sources are all the more necessary. . . . A Guide to Chinese Medicine on the Internet could not be a more timely intervention to separate the legitimate and trustworthy from the fraudulent and profit seeking websites. 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. . . . AN ENORMOUS CONTRIBUTION TO THE FIELD for students, researchers, and professors and as such should be published. (Marta Hanson, PhD, Assistant Professor in the History ofEast Asian Medicine; History of Chinese science and medicine; History of epidemics and disease in China, Johns Hopkins University)

John P.C. Moffett

WILL PROVE OF VALUE FOR A WIDE RANGE OF USERS. Scholars of Chinese medical history will find newly available databases of images and electronic texts or government documentation, practitioners a wealth of detailed clinical knowledge, prospective TCM doctors hundreds of colleges and universities in China and the West where they can learn their art, and those in the pharmaceutical business potential suppliers and research partners. . . . AN INVALUABLE MAP OF THE GLOBAL PHENOMENON THAT IS CHINESE MEDICINE AS IT CONTINUES TO EXPAND AND DEVELOP FOR MANY YEARS TO COME. (John P.C. Moffett, Librarian, East Asian History of Science Library, Needham Research Institute)