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updated 1998-01-19 |
American herbalists' realpolitik: practice and politics of Chinese herbologyIntroduction and table of contents for essays on the practice and politics of Chinese (TCM) herbology and health care. The essays in this series evolved from discussions of challenges facing TCM herbalists in 1990's America in the areas of education, regulation, and politics. Today's herbalists face the same problems as those of ancient herbalists and physicians, and I have emphasized a historical approach to solving them. Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat its mistakes. To avoid this fate, I hope these essays will encourage TCM herbalists around the world to overcome these challenges so our profession can grow, rather than become moribund and dogmatic. Roger W. Wicke, Ph.D. |
Table of contents of essays in this series:
Other articles on health care politics:
AcknowledgmentsI am grateful to C. S. Cheung, M.D., for his insights and encouragement. Our numerous frank discussions together have yielded what I hope is a useful melding of ideas from West and East that, together, may penetrate to the heart of problems facing TCM herbalists. I would also like to thank my students, including Karin Stallard, Martha Mathews-Libster, Jo Rigg, and Lilo Klaehn for providing me with many of the stimuli and ideas for these essays. Roger W. Wicke, Ph.D.
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