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Transdisciplinary Bibliography on Emotions

Bibliographic machine Patrick S. O'Donnell has kindly allowed me to post a version of his bibliography on emotions.  As usual, O'Donnell's research is exhaustive, and crosses various disciplines.

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Bioethics Bibliography

Bibliographic machine Patrick S. O'Donnell has kindly supplied us with another one of his amazing bibliographies, this one on bioethics.  Download it here: Download Bioethics_bibliography.doc 

Medical Humanities Bibliography: On Death & Dying

MH Blog Contributor Patrick S. O'Donnell has very kindly put together one of his patented, amazing bibliographies, this one on death & dying.  It is organized thematically into spiritual traditions as well as secular approaches.  Just looking at it tires me out.

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Many thanks, Patrick!

Chinese Medicine: A Selected Bibliography

This is an introductory list of secondary sources in English for the study of “magical, classical and traditional Chinese medicine.” It is thus in no way exhaustive. I purposely avoided (with a few exceptions) journal articles so as to keep the list manageable. Readers who know of titles they believe to be conspicuously missing from this introductory compilation can make note of them in the comments. I hope it proves useful to those comparatively new to this particular field of knowledge and praxis in complementary and alternative medicine. Perhaps we can inaugurate a new category: "Medical Humanities Bibliographies." (Daniel is well aware of my penchant for composing lists of this sort.)

• Bensky, Dan and Randall Barolet. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Formula and Strategies. Seattle, WA: Eastland Press, 1990.
• Bensky, Dan, Steven Clavey, and Erich Stöger. Chinese Herbal Medicine: Materia Medica. Seattle, WA: Eastland Press, 3rd ed., 2004. 
• Bensoussan, Alan. The Vital Meridian: A Modern Exploration of Acupuncture. Melbourne: Churchill Livingstone, 1991.
• Chang, Hson-Mou and Paul Pui-Hay But. Pharmacology and Applications of Chinese Materia Medica. 2 Vols. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Co., 1986.
• Clavey, Steven. Fluid Physiology and Pathology in Traditional Chinese Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2nd ed., 2003.
• Farquhar, Judith. Knowing Practice: The Clinical Encounter of Chinese Medicine. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1994.
• Fruehauf, Heiner. “Chinese Medicine in Crisis: Science, Politics, and the Making of ‘TCM,’” The Journal of Chinese Medicine, 61/6, October 1999. Online version (slightly longer): http://www.classicalchinesemedicine.org/ccm/index.htm
• Harper, Donald. Early Chinese Medical Literature: The Mawangdui Medical Manuscripts. London: Kegan Paul, 1998.
• Hsu, Elisabeth. The Transmission of Chinese Medicine. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
• Kaptchuk, Ted J. The Web That Has No Weaver: Understanding Chinese Medicine. Chicago, IL: Contemporary Books, 2nd ed., 2000.
• Kuriyama, Shigehisa. The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine. New York: Zone Books, 1999.
• Leslie, Charles and Alan Young, eds. Paths to Asian Medical Knowledge. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.
• Lloyd, Geoffrey and Nathan Sivin. The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. The Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1989.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. Obstetrics and Gynecology in Chinese Medicine. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 1998 ed.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. Diagnosis in Chinese Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2004.
• Maciocia, Giovanni. The Practice of Chinese Medicine: The Treatment of Diseases with Acupuncture and Chinese Herbs. Edinburgh: Churchill Livingstone, 2nd ed., 2007.
• Porkert, Manfred. The Theoretical Foundations of Chinese Medicine. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1974.
• Scheid, Volker. Chinese Medicine in Contemporary China: Plurality and Synthesis. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002.
• Scheid, Volker. Currents of Tradition in Chinese Medicine, 1626-2006. Seattle, WA: Eastland Press, 2007.
• Sivin, Nathan. Traditional Medicine in Contemporary China. Ann Arbor, MI: Center of Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1987.
• Sivin, Nathan. “Science and Medicine in Chinese History,” 1990, accessed at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~nsivin/writ.html
• Sivin, Nathan. “Text and Experience in Early Chinese Medicine,” (1999) See above for URL.
• Strickmann, Michel (Bernard Faure, ed.). Chinese Magical Medicine. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2002.
• Thagard, Paul and Jing Zhu. “Acupuncture, Commensurability, and Conceptual Change,” in Sinatra, G.M. and P. R. Pintrich, eds. Intentional Conceptual Change. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum, 79-102. Available at http://cogsci.uwaterloo.ca/Articles/Pages/Disease.html
• Unschuld, Paul U. Nan-Ching: The Classic of Difficult Issues. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1986.
• Unschuld, Paul U. Medicine in China: A History of Ideas. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1988.

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