In this fascinating book the authors provide an engaging account of the different philosophical foundations upon which Eastern and Western approaches to medical and health education are based, with an aim to showing that a more comprehensive framework of understanding built which synthesizes coherently valuable elements from both traditions.

The reader is offered abundant and insightful critical reflection along the way which does much to challenge conventional views about the nature of disease and illness, its social construction, the role played in the healing process by doctors and other health professionals , and the reconceptualization of Placebo effects as central, rather than extraneous to the somatic theory of Medicine.

This is a book which has the potential to push forward the frontiers of Medical and Health in exciting and important ways.

327 Pages

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