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5.0
Recommend if you want a different understanding of how “western” (ah hem, I mean old white guy “we think we know better than you because we are white dudes”) medicine took over in the United States, and shoved out people like herbalists. I’m glad we’re getting back to some of these things, but with climate change, our fascist government and other things it’s a difficult one to grapple with at the moment.
A gripe (not with the book but with history): The American Medical Association only exists because they made an unholy alliance with the new pharmaceutical industry to sell ads in their journal at the time, and then they basically became the only medical society in the US. I had no idea there were others, and this book is a really fascinating read about all of that and more.
A gripe (not with the book but with history): The American Medical Association only exists because they made an unholy alliance with the new pharmaceutical industry to sell ads in their journal at the time, and then they basically became the only medical society in the US. I had no idea there were others, and this book is a really fascinating read about all of that and more.
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