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Article: Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis.

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by Volker Scheid

review by Bob Flaws, Dipl. Ac. & C.H., Lic.Ac., FNAAOM, FRCHM

Duke University Press, Durham, North Carolina

Illustrations: Black & White photos and antique Chinese medical blockprints

ISBN (paperback): 0-8223-2972-0; $23.95, Pages: 407.

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Volker Scheid's new book, Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis, is a hugely significant read for anyone interested in the practice and development or Chinese medicine during the last hundred years. For those who may not know Volker, he is a German-born practitioner of Chinese medicine as well as a medical ...

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