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Disciplines in Medicine & Healing Traditions
Clinical medicine and public health alongside the functional, integrative, Chinese and Ayurvedic traditions.
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11 figures
Zhang Xichun
1860 – 1933First great synthesiser of Chinese and Western medicine; his case records still teach clinicians.
Georges Soulié de Morant
1878 – 1955French consul in China whose L'Acuponcture Chinoise opened the practice to Europe.
Cheng Dan'an
1899 – 1957Rescued acupuncture from abolition and rebuilt it on anatomical terms with filiform needles.
Keisetsu Otsuka
1900 – 1980Revived Kampo in Japan and secured its place inside the national health insurance system.
Zhu Lian
1909 – 1978Wrote New Acupuncture (1951) and led the state institute that standardised the practice.
Yoshio Manaka
1911 – 1989Surgeon-acupuncturist who built a biophysical model of meridian therapy.
Deng Tietao
1916 – 2019Master physician of Guangzhou whose spleen-stomach theory shaped modern TCM curricula.
J. R. Worsley
1923 – 2003Founded Five Element acupuncture and the colleges that carried it across the English-speaking world.
Miriam Lee
1926 – 2009Her arrest and trial in California led directly to acupuncture's legalisation in the state.
Giovanni Maciocia
1945 – 2018The Foundations of Chinese Medicine became the standard Western textbook of the field.
Ted Kaptchuk
b. 1947Wrote The Web That Has No Weaver, then founded Harvard's programme in placebo studies.