A Manual
of Acupuncture by Peter Deadman, Mazin Al-Khafaji, with Kevin Baker.
Hardcover book published by Journal of Chinese Medicine Publications
2007, 675 pages with black and white illustrations, and black and
white with some brown illustrations.
"Established
as the most complete work on the channels, collaterals and points in
English, A Manual of Acupuncture has become the gold standard text
for students and practitioners of acupuncture."
I like
text books. I think this 'like' and passing interest comes from my
early years of bookselling way back in the 1980s when I was working
in a university book shop. Large unwieldy volumes filled with stuff
I didn't understand and never will understand, still get me excited (…
no, not like that), despite the impenetrable wall of my personal incomprehension.
It was an Australian University and it was the 1980s so there were
no books dealing with Acupuncture on the shelves under my
coordination. If they had of taught it there, I would have had it... They
didn't, so no acupuncture. Despite my lack of bookish experience in channels, collaterals and points, I didn't hesitate in picking up this weighty
tome. “Most complete work on the channels, collaterals and
points in English”, is what
convinced me. It is a little concerning that there is possibly a
more complete text in another language(s), I guess this one will have
to do for English speakers at this point in time or rather at that
time (2007).
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