2018
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-59702018000100002
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Sanadores inesperados: medicina china en la era de migración global (Lima y California, 1850-1930)

Abstract: The massive waves of Chinese migrants arriving in California and Lima in the second half of the nineteenth century played a crucial role in expanding Chinese medicine in both settings. From the late 1860s on, herbalists expanded their healing system beyond their ethnic community, transforming Chinese medicine into one of the healing practices most widely adopted by the local population. This article uses a comparative approach to examine the diverging trajectories of Chinese healers in Peru and the USA, as wel… Show more

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“…Popular reliance on non-allopathic healers (particularly Chinese ones) posed a formidable challenge because Chinese herbalists had been attracting patients since the 1860s, long before the emergence of the SPC; their reputation for treating sexually transmitted illnesses, their relatively painless methods, and lower fees, combined with well-placed ads and patient testimonials, attracted the opprobrium of their competitors, particularly at the Facultad de Medicina. In the early twentieth century, this latter group waged a fierce but losing battle against these Chinese healers, accusing them of incompetence, greed, and (more specific to our case) practicing surgery in cases of cancer when, according to Peruvian physicians, they were at best simple merchants of medicinal plants (Palma, 2018).…”
Section: Cancer and The Peruvian Public In The Early Twentieth Centurymentioning
confidence: 90%
“…Popular reliance on non-allopathic healers (particularly Chinese ones) posed a formidable challenge because Chinese herbalists had been attracting patients since the 1860s, long before the emergence of the SPC; their reputation for treating sexually transmitted illnesses, their relatively painless methods, and lower fees, combined with well-placed ads and patient testimonials, attracted the opprobrium of their competitors, particularly at the Facultad de Medicina. In the early twentieth century, this latter group waged a fierce but losing battle against these Chinese healers, accusing them of incompetence, greed, and (more specific to our case) practicing surgery in cases of cancer when, according to Peruvian physicians, they were at best simple merchants of medicinal plants (Palma, 2018).…”
Section: Cancer and The Peruvian Public In The Early Twentieth Centurymentioning
confidence: 90%
“…No solo los farmacéuticos locales fueron víctimas de usurpación profesional. Los herbolarios chinos, también lo sufrieron de quienes quisieron aprovecharse de su repentina fama adquirida luego de la epidemia de fiebre amarilla de 1868 (50,51) . En 1877, el herbolario Tam Jing publicó un aviso en el diario El Comercio, en el cual advertía a su clientela que su consulta no se encontraba en la calle Plumereros, sino en la de Unión.…”
Section: Usurpación Profesionalunclassified
“…Esta declaración la realizaba porque había visto en el diario El Comercio un anuncio en el cual su nombre plagiado "con el propósito de especular con él", pero que a diferencia de sus anuncios, tenía problemas de redacción (52) . Sin embargo, los herbolarios chinos más importantes de la ciudad solucionaron de manera eficiente el tema de usurpación médica al incluir, desde la década de 1910, fotografías personales en sus anuncios, permitiendo que los pacientes pudiesen reconocerlos (50) . Se trataba de una técnica bastante innovadora, para un momento en que muchos retratos permanecían confinados a los estudios fotográficos y las cartas de visita.…”
Section: Usurpación Profesionalunclassified
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“…El proceso de medicalización en América Latina lejos estuvo de ser sencillo y lineal tal como lo reflejan los casos de Brasil (de Almeida y Dahhur, 2020;Weber, 1999;Witter, 2001); Colombia (Sowell, 2002;Estrada-Orrego et al, 2022;Márquez y Estrada, 2018); Perú (Palma, 2018;Palma y Ragas, 2020;Palma y Vallejo, 2019); Costa Rica (Palmer, 2003) entre otros. A lo largo de los últimos treinta años en Argentina diversos investigadores se han ocupado de estudiar el ascenso, no sin escollos, de la medicina alopática a la cima del reconocimiento.…”
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