116: History is Not a Placebo: Chinese Medicine in America (w/Tamara Venit-Shelton)
Conspirituality
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What Is the Difference Between Chinese Medicine and American Pharmacology?
Chinese medicine has always been a part of ura american pharmocological knowledge. But by the end of the nineteenth century, and i think this really hasto do again with this gilded age moment of modernization, industrialization, new flows of labor from overseas, including chinain. The late nineteenth century, chinese medicine takes on a new racialized cast, and it becomes something that is both attractive and repulsive. That is to say, it's something that american patient consumers still very much use. They still very much desire its. As i say in the book, it's part of the sort of buffet of medical offerings that American patients sampling from all the time.
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