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Acknowledgements

This Acupuncture Picture Atlas is a joint project of many very

helpful contributors who have helped to complete it.

First of all my thanks go to the models and especially to the pho-

tographer Anja Messerschmidt. Her understanding and photo-

graphic skills provided the visual foundation for the Atlas to also

be an artistic ‘feast for the eyes’.

I would like to thank the graphic designer Henriette Rintelen for

the successful graphic design and converting my ideas into

visual images.

Thanks go to my colleague Ulrich März for the succint arrange-

ment and editing of the chapter on Anatomical Orientation as

well as his contributions to the core chapters. I would like to

thank my colleague Ingolf Hosbach for his contributions to the

chapter on Research as well as his idea about the visually concise

pictograms and for partially converting them by computer.

I want to thank all the staff at Elsevier involved in this project for

their, once again, very productive co-operation. My thanks go

particularly to Rolf Lenzen for agreeing to do the atlas, Christine

Kosel for dealing with the gruelling organisation during produc-

tion, as well as Petra Münzel-Kaiser and Christl Kiener for edit-

ing. My thanks extend particularly to Christl Kiener for her

numerous ideas and fruitful exchange of concepts.

My heartfelt gratitude also includes my teachers who have sown

the nourishing spark of enthusiasm for Chinese and energetic

medicine. I thank my patients for their trust and for allowing me

to learn from them.

I would also like to thank the strong women in my family and

my circle of friends for their inspiration and being a source of

vibrant female power. Thank you to my sister Annette Focks for

her friendship and wonderful music, which helped me overcome

some of the hurdles of this project. I extend particular thanks to

Anneliese Solenski and Christa Skopp for their helpful support

with my private affairs.

Above all I want to thank my inspirational husband Christoph

Ranzinger and our wonderful children Tabea and Lasse for their

love and generous tolerance, without which the Atlas would not

have been possible.

For the English edition I would like to extend my thanks to the

staff at Elsevier in London, particularly Karen Morley for

accepting the atlas and to Kerry McGechie and Martin Mellor

for the extensive editing work. Thank you also to Johanna

Schuster who has translated the Atlas into English with great

care and knowledge.

Claudia Focks, Rottweil, March 2008

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