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Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine
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Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine Hardcover - 2000

by R. Bivins


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In 1825, an English Earl, crippled with pain and despairing of his usual physicians, invited a young and unconventional doctor into his home. Days later, the Earl was relieved, and the doctor rich. To celebrate his remarkable recovery, the nobleman re-named his favorite racehorse to honor the technique that cured him: "acupuncture." In an engaging account, Roberta Bivins vivifies the characters, texts, and events of acupuncture's (often surprising) 300 year history in Britain, and begins to explain acupuncture's enduring appeal.

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In the 1840s with Britain teetering on the brink of empire, G. Tradescant Lay's pleas for a sensitive and receptive approach to what were rapidly becoming 'mere' colonial cultures fell on deaf ears.

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  • Title Acupuncture, Expertise and Cross-Cultural Medicine
  • Author R. Bivins
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First printing
  • Pages 263
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Palgrave MacMillan, Basingstoke
  • Date 2000-11-24
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index
  • ISBN 9780333918937 / 0333918932
  • Weight 1.17 lbs (0.53 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.7 x 5.78 x 0.89 in (22.10 x 14.68 x 2.26 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Transcultural medical care - Great Britain, Acupuncture - Great Britain - History
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00033326
  • Dewey Decimal Code 615.892

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  • Scitech Book News, 06/01/2001, Page 122

About the author

ROBERTA BIVENS is a Research Associate in the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine at the Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine, University of Manchester, where she continues to research cross-cultural medical practices in Twentieth-century Britain.
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