Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

• Nigel Wiseman, Feng Ye. A practical dictionary of Chinese medicine. Brookline, Mass. : Paradigm, 1998. [ Davis R601 .W57 1998]

            This dictionary is a very good reference work. It is written by an American scholar. This dictionary is very convenient to use for non-Chinese speaking researchers. It gives very good illustrations as well as explanations. This book is made in a way that is useful to practitioners, students, teachers, whether or not they know Chinese or are familiar with the terminology presented.
  

• Traditional Chinese medicine dictionary in Chinese-English and English-Chinese. : Hsin hua shu tien T‘ien-chin fa hsing so fa hsing, 1994[Davis R121 .H23656 1994 , HSL Reference W 13 H233 1994 ]

            This dictionary is very useful both to Chinese researchers and non-Chinese speaking researchers. The two-way translation function makes this dictionary stand out from other dictionaries. It not only provides Chinese Characters, English words of the terms but also provides romanization spellings of Chinese characters of each terms in the dictionary. It has 11,000 English entries and 9,700 Chinese entries. The arrangement of each entry is organized in a way that is inner related and easy to find. Under each entry it not only provides a main entry but also several related subentries. It also gives multiple access points.
  

• Companion encyclopedia of the history of medicine : London ; New York : Routledge, 1993. [Davis Reference R133.E5 1993]
  
            This encyclopedia devotes around 30 pages exclusively to Traditional Chinese Medicine. Cross reference is provided for further information concerning the subject under discussion. It introduces the medical corpus and the constitution of knowledge, the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, disorder manifestation and diagnosis, therapy and its coexistence with western medicine.