| Asian Cultural Studies |
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Asian Studies WWW Virtual Library
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This is a constellation of distributed, hierarchically structured and inter-linked
WWW pages which provide a continuously evolving access tool to the networked scholarly
documents, resources and information systems concerned with a given field of expertise.
Maintained by Australia National University. |
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Assocation for Asian Studies: Panels, Presenters, and Abstracts from Previous AAS Annual
Meetings (1995-2004)
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The annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies represents a cross section of
current scholarship in Asian Studies. Each year AAS publishes abstracts to help those
attending the annual meeting select the panels they wish to see, and to provide a summary
of panels they may miss. |
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China Gateway: Culture and History > Medicine, Science and Technology
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Daoist Studies
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The Daoist Studies website contains scholarly information about Daoism,
including books on Daoism, conferences, scholars, a bibliography and general
resources for learning about Daoism. |
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Reference Works for Chinese Studies
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An annotated bibliography and research guide by Leif Littrup. A listing of research guides,
bibliographies, reference works, periodicals, electronic aids and appendices. |
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Ricci Institute
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Resources to publications, sponsorship of symposia and lectures, and collaboration
between Chinese and Western scholars in the field of Chinese-Western cultural history with
a concentration on the history of Christianity in China. |
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TCM and Chinese Culture Links
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A list of links provided by the American Academy of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (AAAOM).
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Umass Amherst: The East Asian Collection
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East Asian resource page. |
| Biomedicine and Basic Sciences |
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A Student's Guide to Medical Literature
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This site has been designed especially for medical students, but it can be used by
anyone who wants a guide to the medical literature. |
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MedHunt
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Search all medical websites for information about health on the Net. |
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Merck Manual
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The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy |
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RX List - The Internet Drug Index
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A free searchable drug information site geared for use by either professionals or consumers. |
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Systems Biology
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Information on Systems Biology from the Institute of Systems Biology. |
| Bodywork |
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American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia
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The American Organization for Bodywork Therapies of Asia is a national not-for-profit professional
association of practitioners of Bodywork Therapies of Asia. All forms that are recognized
by AOBTA originally had their roots in China. |
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The Shiatsu Society (UK)
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The Shiatsu Society is a non-profit umbrella organization for all types and styles of Shiatsu. |
| Chinese Herbal & Botanical Medicine |
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Chinese Herbs Dictionary
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Online herbal data by Joe Hing Kwok Chu with Latin Names, Pinyin Names, Hanzi
Characters, functions, etc. |
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Classic Herbal Texts
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A listing of western herb classic herb text. |
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Herbal Medicine Links
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Learn about herbs and wild medicinal plants, herbal remedies, alternative medicine,
aromatherapy, herb farming and more ! View hundreds of botanical images and herb pictures. |
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MedHerb.Com
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Provided by the North American Institute of Medical Herbalism, Inc.
Contains links to medical information and to any resource to medicinal
herbs or herbalism practiced a clinical setting, regardless of the medical tradition or system. |
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Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center: Intregrative medicine
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Provides full-text, objective information on herbs, vitamins, and supplements,
especially potential use in cancer care; includse clinical summary and details about
constituents, adverse effects, interactions, and potential benefits or problems. |
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Southwest School of Botanical Medicine
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Western herb images and text |
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Traditional Chinese Medicine and Acupuncture Health Information Organization
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Chinese herb images and text |
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Western Prescribed Drug Dictionary
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Compiled by Joe Hing Kwok Chu. |
| Chinese Language Resources |
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Learning Chinese Online
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A large website with a variety of learning tools for English speakers
aiming to learn Chinese.
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| Complimentary & Alternative Medicine |
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Alternative Medicine Foundation
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A nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization, founded in March 1998 to provide information about
alternative medicine to the public and health professionals. Sponsors of HerbMed ® and
TibetMed ® databases. |
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Alternative Medicine Homepage
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A comprehensive web directory maintained by Falk Library of the Health Sciences,
University of Pittsburgh. |
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Bandolier
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Provides independent evaluations and summaries of evidence-based articles, arranged by topic. |
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Continuum Center for Health and Healing
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Provides concise information on treatments, history, philosophy, and training of
different CAM modalities and alternative health systems. |
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Gancao.net Aculinks
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Links to websites of interest to consumers, students and practitioners of
acupuncture and related topics. Currently over 600 unique links with both in depth
information and quality presentation. |
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Guidelines on Developing Consumer Information on Proper use of Traditional, Complementary and Alternative Medicine
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World Health Organization |
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Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Center for Alternative and Complementary Medicine
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Links to CAM internet sites and databases. |
| Discussion Lists |
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Acupunture/Acupressure Discussion Groups
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A listing of various discussion lists, many requiring a Yahoo membership. |
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Advanced Pulse Diagnosis
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Jim Ramholz's forum on pulses. |
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Chinese Herb Academy
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Hosted by Todd Luger is a professional resource with discussion lists and papers relevant
to Oriental medicine. The discussion
group is a mailing list for licensed practitioners and matriculated students, as well as
postgraduates in related fields, such as Chinese philosophy and pharmacology. |
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Forums at Gancao.net
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Study and Development of Chinese Pulses
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Will Morris's forum on pulses. |
| Government Sites |
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Adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia
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Located on the National Library of Medicine's MEDLINEplus website,
"the adam Health Illustrated Encyclopedia includes over 4,000 articles about diseases, tests,
symptoms, injuries, and surgeries. It also contains an extensive library of medical photographs
and illustrations." |
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Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
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FDA site specific to prescription and OTC drugs. |
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China Information Service System on Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Government sponsered web-based resource for Tradition Chinese Medicine and biomedicine.
English language version links here are
not always as well maintained as the Chinese language version. |
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ClinicalTrails.gov
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ClinicalTrials.gov has been developed by the U.S. National Institutes of Health
through its National Library of Medicine, to provide patients, family members and
members of the public current information about clinical research studies. Clinical
trials are research studies in which new treatments - drugs, diagnostics procedures,
vaccines, and other therapies - are tested in people to see if they are safe and effective. |
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Directory of Health Organizations
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DIRLINE (Directory of Information Resources Online) is the National Library of Medicine's
online database containing location and descriptive information about a wide variety of
information resources including organizations, research resources, projects, and databases
concerned with health and biomedicine. |
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National Cancer Institute (NCI)
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Has high quality biomed information on types of cancer, treatments, screening, clinical trials,
statistics, and more. |
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)
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The National Center for Complementary & Alternative Medicine is an Internet site
which includes publications, information for researchers, and links to other
CAM-related resources with a searchable interface. |
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National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference
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Statement of the 1997 November Conference. |
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Office of Cancer Complementary and Alternative Medicine (OCCAM)
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An office of the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, MD. |
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Population Information Online
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POPLINE is the world's largest bibliographic database on population, family planning,
and related health issues. POPLINE provides citations with abstracts for over 280,000 records
representing published and unpublished literature in the field |
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White House Commission on CAM Policy - March 2002
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World Health Organization - Essential Drugs and Medicines Policy
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| History of Medicine |
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Chinese Science and Medicine
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Nathan Sivin's writings on Chinese Science and Medicine.
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Classical Historiography for Chinese History
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This bibliography pulls together materials that Benjamin Elman has been compiling at
UCLA for the past ten years with the help of graduate students. Its intended audience
is anyone interested in doing research in Chinese history (broadly defined) and is of use
in historical research, library work, and graduate training requiring working
knowledge of classical Chinese.
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History Cooperative
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The History Cooperative is a pioneering nonprofit humanities
resource offering top-level online history scholarship. Besides
full text, the site also contains collateral content, including
multimedia elements that could not be reproduced in the print
versions of some articles. |
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History of Chinese Medicine
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Timeline set of links compiled by the Karolinska Institutet. |
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History of Medicine Online
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The HISTLINE database is an index to the secondary literature dealing with the history
of medicine and related fields that has been published since 1965. It includes literature
about the history of health-related professions, sciences, specialties, individuals,
institutions, drugs, and diseases in all parts of the world and all historic periods. It
indexes U.S. and foreign publications, including journal articles, and individual chapters
in the published proceedings of symposia, congresses and the like. |
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The Needham Research Institute
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Centre for the study of the history of East Asian science, technology and medicine. |
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The Origins of Chinese Medicine
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The early development of medical literature in China written by Imre Galambos (1996). |
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The Welcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at Unversity College London
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The Welcome Trust Centre aims to research and disseminate the history of medicine, both as an
academic discipline and as a subject of broader public interest. |
| Library Resources |
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China Gateway: Culture & History > Libraries & Archives
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Chinese Collection at the University of Iowa Library
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Harvard-Yenching Library
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NESA students and faculty with current IDs may access the print
collection at Harvard's Yenching Library.
After registering with the circulation desk at the
Yenching, NESA students and faculty may access its reading rooms and stacks. The Yenching
library is located on Harvard's campus at 2 Divinity Avenue, off of Kirkland Street.
For directions and holdings information, please review the the Yenching library's website. |
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Tufts University School of Medicine's Health Sciences Library
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NESA students may access the print and electronic
collections (including research databases) at Tufts Health Sciences Library (HSL).
Tufts University Health Sciences Library is located in the Arthur M. Sackler Center for Health
Communications at 145 Harrison Avenue off Kneeland Street in Boston's Chinatown. To enter the
HSL, NESA students need to show their current NESA Student ID to the security guards on the
first floor of the Sackler building. For directions and holdings information, please review
the HSL's website before you arrive at the
library. If you have any questions about your access and the resources available to you as
a NESA student, please contact NESA's Kelly Library, 617-926-3969 or library@nesa.edu. |
| Licensing and Boards |
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Massachusetts
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National Certification Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (NCCAOM)
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| Misc |
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Bioethic Literature Online
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Bioethicsline is a unique interdisciplinary source of references to information on the ethical,
legal, and public policy aspects of health care, the professional patient relationship,
and biomedical research. It is an online bibliographic database produced for the National
Library of Medicine (NLM) by the Bioethics Information Retrieval Project at the Kennedy
Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. |
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English-Chinese Biological Terms
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English-Chinese Dictionary
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English-Chinese Medical Dictionary
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HealthBlogger
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A look at issues in modern healthcare. Topics range from herbal medicine, nutrition
and dietary supplements to stem cell therapy, therapeutic cloning and nanotechnology. |
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Medline Plus Medical Dictionary
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A service of the U.S. National Library of Medicine |
| M-W Dictionary OnLine |
In library use only |
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Easily accessed from the desktop of every machine in the Library computer room. |
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Wanfang Data
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Resources on Chinese Culture, medicine, business, science and more. |
| Nutrition |
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Clinical Importance of Vitamin D
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Article on the importance of Vitamin D. |
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Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS)
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Federal database with over 400,000 citations. |
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USDA
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USDA offers diverse selection of food and nutrition information and resource lists which
are notably culturally sensitive. Topics covered include:-
herbal and dietary supplements
- food composition databases, with reports on questionable foods, specifically: oxalic acid content in vegetables,
transfatty acid, sugar content of foods
- dietary guidelines
- Food Guide Pyramid
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| Oriental Medicine |
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Acupuncture Sans Frontieres
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Acupuncture being used for public health in third world countries. |
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Alternative Medicine – Acupuncture, Moxibustion, TCM
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Information on TCM treatment, diagnosis and adjunctive techniques. |
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China Information Service System on Traditional Chinese Medicine
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Government sponsered web-based resource for Tradition Chinese Medicine and biomedicine.
English language version links here are
not always as well maintained as the Chinese language version. |
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ITM OnLine - Institute for Traditional Medicine
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Traditional medicine refers to ideas, experiences, and substances that have been
handed down generation to generation from ancient times, where the origins are obscure
but where the continuity of basic understanding has been assured by a formal structure.
Among the primary traditional medical systems still active today are the Chinese, Tibetan,
and Indian (Ayurvedic). |
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National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference
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Statement of the 1997 November Conference. |
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North American Association for Laser Therapy
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The NAALT is a forum for Laser Therapy users in the North America regions. Their
intention is to improve understanding of the photobiological mechanisms, basic laser physics,
treatment parameters, techniques, regulatory issues and reimbursement.
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Omura Bidigital O-Ring Test
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The Omura Bidigital O-Ring Test is a form of Dx applicable in ALL areas of medicine
(allopathic as well as holistic). It is based on an adaptation of Applied Kinesiology.
Japanese workers (including many MDs) claim excellent results with it. |
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Traditional Chinese Medicine in the Treatment of Breast Cancer
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Information of Chinese Medicine and its use in Breast Cancer. |
| OM Education |
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Accreditation Commission for Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine (ACAOM)
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The accrediting association for schools of Oriental medicine.
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AcuXO: Acupuncture Research and Resource
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Information on meridians, point, combinations, and abstracts.
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Council of Colleges of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine
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Study Guide for Acupuncture
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Online Study guide on Acupuncture and Traditional Chinese Medicine in humans and animals. |
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TCM Student
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An electronic resource center for students of Oriental Medicine by NESA’s own Steve Mavros.
Topics covered include:
- Schools of TCM
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State Laws
- Study Tools
- Herb Pharmacy
- Various Acupuncture Styles
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TCM Tests
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On-line Board preparation tests. |
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Yin Yang House
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CAM and Acupuncture Information, Applications and Resources provided by
NESA graduate Chad J. Dupuis, L.Ac. |
| OM News |
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Acupuncture Today
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Leading monthly newspaper with articles relating to Oriental Medicine. |
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Acupuncture.com
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Practice management, clinical topics, discussion forums, laws, schools, research. |
| Patient Education |
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Acupuncture Referral Service
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Information for people interested in acupuncture treatements. |
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Gold Bamboo
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Online source that combines Eastern and Western health and wellness information. |
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MayoClinic.com
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Access to experience and knowledge of over 2,000 physicians and scientist of
Mayo Clinic. |
| Professional Associations |
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Listing of professional organization and detox clinics
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| Research |
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Acupuncture Research (1996-2003) for Physicians
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by Brian Benjamin Carter |
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Acupuncture Research Report
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Acupuncture research at the NCCAM. |
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ChiMed Bibliographies
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Listing of bibliographies, course syllabus, and other information about research materials. |
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Chinese Science and Medicine
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Nathan Sivin's web site on Chinese Science and Medicine. He's at the University of Pennsylvania. |
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Help with Research
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Kelly Library's resource for writing and research. |
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Interactive Textbook on Clinical Symptom Research
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An interactive textbook for beginning or experienced clinical
researchers who design studies of the epidemiology, mechanisms,
and treatment of common symptoms encountered in medical, dental,
and nursing practice. |
| Research Centers |
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Harvard Medical School Osher Institute
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The Harvard Medicial School Division for Research and Education in
Complementary and Integrative Medical Therapies. |
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New England School of Acupuncture Research Department
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Information about past and current research projects conducted through the NESA
research department. |
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Rosenthal Center
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The Rosenthal Center's broad goals are to contribute to the informed research and practice
of complementary and alternative medicine and to foster the development of a more
comprehensive and inclusive medical system. Directory of CAM and biomedical databases. |
