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Herbs and Roots - A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace (Hardcover)
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Herbs and Roots - A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace (Hardcover)
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An innovative, deeply researched history of Chinese medicine in
America and the surprising interplay between Eastern and Western
medical practice Chinese medicine has a long history in the United
States, with written records dating back to the American colonial
period. In this intricately crafted history, Tamara Venit Shelton
chronicles the dynamic systems of knowledge, therapies, and materia
medica crossing between China and the United States from the
eighteenth century to the present. Chinese medicine, she argues,
has played an important and often unacknowledged role in both
facilitating and undermining the consolidation of medical authority
among formally trained biomedical scientists in the United States.
Practitioners of Chinese medicine, as racial embodiments of
"irregular" medicine, became useful foils for Western physicians
struggling to assert their superiority of practice. At the same
time, Chinese doctors often embraced and successfully employed
Orientalist stereotypes to sell their services to non-Chinese
patients skeptical of modern biomedicine. What results is a story
of racial constructions, immigration politics, cross-cultural
medical history, and the lived experiences of Asian Americans in
American history.
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