Chinese American Herbal Medicine: A History of Importation and Improvisation

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22 juillet 2021

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Hypothèses : carnets de recherches en Sciences humaines et sociales

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Jess Clark, « Chinese American Herbal Medicine: A History of Importation and Improvisation », The Recipes Project, ID : 10.58079/tdbg

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By Tamara Venit Shelton “Chinese herbalists imported everything from China.” This is what I consistently heard from herbalists I interviewed when writing Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in the American Medical Marketplace. As far as anyone knew, when the first generation of Chinese herbalists began to immigrate to the United States in the 1850s, they imported all their medicinal ingredients from China through the port of San Francisco. By 1878, there were eighteen wholesale com...

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