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Say brother. Alternative medicine / directed by David Atwood.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Acupuncture.
- Transcendental Meditation.
- Genre:
- Documentary television programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (59 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Boston, MA : WGBH Boston Video, 1978.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- System Details:
- digital
- data file
- Summary:
- The program explores two non-Western methods of healthcare and healing: acupuncture and transcendental meditation. Host Barbara Barrow-Murray speaks with Don West, a national representative of the transcendental meditation movement, in the first half of the program, and with John Shen (doctor of Chinese medicine), Barbara A. Nates (an acupuncture consumer representative), and Dr. Whei Chue Shih (acupuncturist), members of the Oriental Acupuncture Center of Boston, in the second. Topics include the health benefits of meditation, the training of Chinese doctors, the use of herbs, and the differences between eastern and western approaches to illness. Program includes an in-studio demonstration of acupuncture.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 14, 2015).
- OCLC:
- 911713168
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