
Wind in the Blood
Mayan Healing and Chinese Medicine
North Atlantic Books,U.S. (Publisher)
Published on 22. October 1999
Book
Paperback/Softback
320 pages
978-1-55643-304-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Berkeley, CA
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
B&W PHOTOS & ILLUS. THRUOUT
Dimensions
Height: 242 mm
Width: 217 mm
Thickness: 24 mm
Weight
807 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55643-304-7 (9781556433047)
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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 Communiqués, 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.