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healing and maintain health are asserting themselves. The primordial need to feel physical connection when illness threatens a person’s intactness is again felt. Dr. Gold’s book helps all health care providers see the importance of this dimension of healing. Hopefully, Thai massage, like Japanese shiatsu and Chinese tui na, will become part of the new cosmopolitan approach to health care in general and body work in particular. Ted J. Kaptchuk References 1. Leslie C: Medical pluralism in world perspective, Social Science and Medicine 14B:191-195, 1980. 2. National Institutes of Health: Alternative medicine: expanding medical horizons—a report of the National Institutes of Heal on alternative medical systems and practices in the United States, publication 94-006, Washington, DC, 1995, National Institutes of Health. 3. Lewith G, Aldridge D: Complementary medicine and the European community, Saffron Walden, England, 1991, CW Daniel. 4. Ernst E, Kaptchuk T: Homeopathy revisited, Archives of Internal Medicine 156:2162-2164, 1996. 5. Bhardwaj SM: Medical pluralism and homeopathy: a geographic perspective, Social Science in Medicine 14B:209-216, 1980. 6. Tamulaitis CM, Auerbach GA: Chiropractic growth outside of North America. In: Haldeman S, editor: Principles and practice of chiropractic, Norwalk, Conn, 1992, Appleton & Lange. 7. British Medical Association: Complementary medicine: new approaches to good practice, Oxford, 1993, Oxford University Press. 8. Brun V, Schumacher T: Traditional herbal medicine in northern Thailand, Berkeley, 1987, University of California Press. 9. Golomb L: An anthropology of curing multiethnic Thailand, Urbana, 1985, University of Illinois Press. 10. Sigerist HE: A history of medicine, vol 1, Oxford, 1951, Oxford University Press.
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