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Beschreibung
Wind in the Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, and Hiberto Balam discovered that the similarities between Mayan medicine and traditional Chinese medcine were profound and helpful in their medical work.
Wind in the Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, and Hiberto Balam discovered that the similarities between Mayan medicine and traditional Chinese medcine were profound and helpful in their medical work.
Über den Autor
Translator Jeff Conant is the lead author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008); his articles and essays have been published in independent media and anthologized in the books Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, Confronting Capitalism, We Are Everywhere, and Tipping the Sacred Cow. His book, A Poetics of Resistance: Strategy and Symbol in the Zapatista Communiqués, Being a True Tale of a Possible Better World in its First Untamed Imaginings is forthcoming from AK Press in 2009. His training in Shiatsu and acupressure and work in community development in southern Mexico deeply informed his work translating Wind in the Blood. He currently lives in Northern California.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 1999
Genre: Importe
Produktart: Ratgeber
Rubrik: Gesundheit
Thema: Gesundheit
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781556433047
ISBN-10: 1556433042
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Garcia, Hernan
Sierra, Antonio
Balam, Gilberto
Übersetzung: Conant, Jeff
Hersteller: North Atlantic Books
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 242 x 217 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Hernan Garcia (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.10.1999
Gewicht: 0,807 kg
Artikel-ID: 134602668