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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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Miriam Lee
1926 – 2009Her arrest and trial in California led directly to acupuncture's legalisation in the state.
United States·Traditional Chinese Medicine
Ted Kaptchuk
b. 1947Wrote The Web That Has No Weaver, then founded Harvard's programme in placebo studies.
United States·Traditional Chinese Medicine · Medicine