"Reading the Body" is not just a book about health and shiatsu; it is a guide to living well. The goal of Oriental diagnosis is to find unity of body, mind and spirit. It emphasizes that everyone has strengths and weaknesses and that accommodating one's weakness is as important as utilizing one's strength.

Filled with diagrams, drawings, and sample diagnosis, this is not only a practical guidebook--by "reading the body" one can tell what shiatsu techniques to apply to the various energy meridians of the body--but also a fascinating meditation on how to live.