Herbs and Roots A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace

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.

ISBN:	9780300243611
Publisher:	Yale University Press
Imprint:	Yale University Press
Published date:	14 Jan 2020
DEWEY:	610.951
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	xviii, 344
Weight:	682g
Height:	164mm
Width:	243mm
Spine width:	26mm

Write a review

Your Name:

Your Review: Note: HTML is not translated!

Rating: Bad           Good

Enter the code in the box below: