T amara V enit S helton . Herbs and Roots

Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace is not a history of Chinese medicine, and that is one of its great strengths. Instead, it is a history of doctors: ethnic Chinese immigrants and their descendants who treated the sick and injured in the United States, mostly with herbs, from the mid-1800s to the present. Tamara Shelton wisely stays silent about the healing content of their practices: how they were trained, what they believed about the body and illness, and what therapies they administered. Their beliefs and practices were undoubtedly diverse, and to write as though they represented a coherent form of medicine would be misleading. Instead, she focuses on how these doctors made a place for themselves in a changing, complex marketplace. In the past, to the extent that they have trodden this terrain at all, historians have focused on Chinese medicine in America...

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