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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Tamara Venit SheltonPublisher: Yale University Press Imprint: Yale University Press Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.680kg ISBN: 9780300243611ISBN 10: 0300243618 Pages: 368 Publication Date: 14 January 2020 Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , General , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsWinner of the Best Subsequent Book Award, sponsored by Phi Alpha Theta History Honor Society Fascinating, innovative, and well written. Herbs and Roots provides a comprehensive study of Chinese medicine and its practitioners in the United States, giving us new insights into both race relations and the history of medicine in general. --Bridie Andrews, author of The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 From a treasure trove of primary sources, Tamara Venit Shelton has crafted an important and original contribution to immigration history, medical and health history, and Asian American history. --Nancy Tomes, author of Remaking the American Patient Herbs and Roots is a captivating historical account of the development of Chinese medicine in the United States--an interesting read with a fine balance of academic rigor and storytelling. --Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP Center for East-West Medicine and Center for Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles Readers will relish this gracefully written volume's rich contribution to the history of immigration, American medicine, and the trans-Pacific journey of traditional Chinese therapeutics. --Alan Kraut, author of Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace Herbs and Roots fills a gap in the current historical scholarship on the cultural history of Chinese medicine as actually practiced in Chinese communities in America --William C. Summers, author of The Great Manchurian Plague of 19101911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease Fascinating, innovative, and well written. Herbs and Roots provides a comprehensive study of Chinese medicine and its practitioners in the United States, giving us new insights into both race relations and the history of medicine in general. --Bridie Andrews, author of The Making of Modern Chinese Medicine, 1850-1960 From a treasure trove of primary sources, Tamara Venit Shelton has crafted an important and original contribution to immigration history, medical and health history, and Asian American history. --Nancy Tomes, author of Remaking the American Patient Herbs and Roots is a captivating historical account of the development of Chinese medicine in the United States--an interesting read with a fine balance of academic rigor and storytelling. --Ka-Kit Hui, MD, FACP Center for East-West Medicine and Center for Collaborative Centers for Integrative Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles Readers will relish this gracefully written volume's rich contribution to the history of immigration, American medicine, and the trans-Pacific journey of traditional Chinese therapeutics. --Alan Kraut, author of Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the Immigrant Menace Herbs and Roots fills a gap in the current historical scholarship on the cultural history of Chinese medicine as actually practiced in Chinese communities in America --William C. Summers, author of The Great Manchurian Plague of 19101911: The Geopolitics of an Epidemic Disease Author InformationTamara Venit Shelton is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and author of A Squatter’s Republic: Land and the Politics of Monopoly in California, 1850–1900. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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