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Chinese medicine in America: Tamara Venit Shelton: Herbs and roots: a history of Chinese doctors in the American medical marketplace. Chinese medicine is generally left out of historical accounts of medicine in the USA, and when it is included, it is typically done so only starting in the 1970s and the normalization of diplomatic relations between the USA and China. As Shelton convincingly shows, however, Chinese medicine has always been a part of the American medical marketplace, and while this will not surprise historians of medicine, other readers will find the basic intervention to be a fascinating one. [Extracted from the article]