Reading hands: Pulse qualities and the specificity of the clinical

East Asian Science, Technology and Society

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 9-24

  Farquhar, Judith ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Clinical ethnography; Medical semiotics; Pulse reading; Qualitative evaluation; Traditional Chinese medicine

Indexed keywords

EID: 84897646064     PISSN: 18752160     EISSN: 18752152     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/18752160-2405767     Document Type: Article

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