本套教材在编写过程中充分体现了专业性和实用性的结合,力图融合中医专业知识与英语听说训练,达到提高学生英语听说技能、丰富中医相关知识的编写目的。教材编排针对中医相关专业的本科生,以英语听说为核心,练习紧扣大学英语教学大纲,同时又兼顾中医专业词汇和传统文化知识的普及。
本书为系列教材的第一册,共十六个单元,各单元主题分别为:Unit 1 TCM Preventive Theory,Unit 2 Daoism,Unit 3 Medicated Diet,Unit 4 Traditional Chinese Costumes,Unit 5 Anecdotes of TCM,Unit 6 Beauty,Unit 7 The Naming and Classifying of Traditional Chinese Drug,Unit 8 Four Inventions in Ancient China,Unit9 Classics of TCM,Unit 10 Education in Ancient China,Unit 11 Body-Building Exercises of TCM,Unit 12 Well-known Women in Ancient China,Unit 13 Ethnomedicine ,Unit 14 Lunar Calendar,Unit 15 Internationalization of TCM,Unit 16 Traditional Chinese Arts。