Individualized medicine, health medicine, and constitutional theory in Chinese medicine

Frontiers of Medicine in China

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-7

  Wang, Qi ^a  

^a BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Constitutional theory in Chinese medicine; Health medicine; Individualized medicine

Indexed keywords

BODY CONSTITUTION; CHINESE MEDICINE; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN GENOME; METHODOLOGY; PERSONALIZED MEDICINE; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM;

BODY CONSTITUTION; GENOME, HUMAN; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALIZED MEDICINE; MEDICINE, CHINESE TRADITIONAL; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 84864882097     PISSN: 16737342     EISSN: 16737458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11684-012-0173-y     Document Type: Review

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