Bibliograph

Herbs and roots, a history of Chinese doctors in the American medical marketplace, Tamara Venit Shelton

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Herbs and roots, a history of Chinese doctors in the American medical marketplace, Tamara Venit Shelton

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrationsportraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Herbs and roots

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1126311317

Responsibility statement

Tamara Venit Shelton

Sub title

a history of Chinese doctors in the American medical marketplace

Summary

"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."--, Provided by publisher

Table Of Contents

Herbs and roots -- Transplanted -- Translated -- Chinese quacks -- Oriental healers -- Decline -- Rediscovery -- Epilogue : a new medicine

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