# 449 History Series, In the Footsteps of the Yellow Emperor • Peter Eckman

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Podcast: [Qiological Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/qiological-podcast-915251)
Published: 2026-02-24T05:15:00+00:00
Episode link: https://qiological.com
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Duration seconds: 5328

## Resource

Often enough, medicine evolves not through the accumulation of answers, but instead by posing annoying questions. The thing about learning, it usually carries an element of disruption. In this conversation with Peter Eckman we follow him in his journey of sleuthing out where JR Worsley learned his medicine. But, it’s not just a story of where Worsley got his stuff, to set the stage we have to go back to the shaman practitioners of a time before history. Then come forward through the pantheon of Chinese doctors of the past, and then into the modern age where colonialism opens the door to acupuncture making its way into the West. Peter’s book, In the Footsteps of the Yellow Emperor details a story that goes from East to West and back to the East with a new Chinese language edition. What better place for a discussion like this than in a History Series conversation?

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