Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine by Garcia, Hernan

Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781556433047)

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Format: Paperback
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Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine by Garcia, Hernan

Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine

$24.95
Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine by Garcia, Hernan

Wind in the Blood: Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine

$24.95
Format: Paperback
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Wind in the Blood is a detailed look at Mayan medicine on Mexico's Yucatan peninsula and its similarities to Chinese traditional medicine. It was originally published in Spanish as a manual for health workers in Mayan areas to bridge the gulf between Western medcal technique and Mayan medical knowledge. Mexican physicians Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, and Hiberto Balam discovered that the similarities between Mayan medicine and traditional Chinese medcine were profound and helpful in their medical work.

Author: Hernan Garcia, Antonio Sierra, Gilberto Balam
ISBN-10: 1556433042
ISBN-13: 9781556433047
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Language: English
Published: 10/22/1999
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.78lbs
Size: 9.51h x 8.55w x 0.93d
By Hernan Garcia
By Hernan Garcia
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Translator Jeff Conant is the lead author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health (Hesperian Foundation, 2008); his articles and essays have been published in independent media and anthologized in the books Dam Nation: Dispatches from the Water Underground, Confronting Capitalism, We Are Everywhere, and Tipping the Sacred Cow. His book, A Poetics of Resistance: Strategy and Symbol in the Zapatista Communiqu駸, Being a True Tale of a Possible Better World in its First Untamed Imaginings is forthcoming from AK Press in 2009. His training in Shiatsu and acupressure and work in community development in southern Mexico deeply informed his work translating Wind in the Blood. He currently lives in Northern California.

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