“Uprooted Medicine is an important and highly readable book, which contains a wealth of historical detail backed by solid academic research and informed by decades of clinical practice. It shows convincingly that the story generally told, that patient outcomes have justified the replacement of folk and natural medicine traditions by synthetic medicines and surgical interventions, has been largely an invention, and argues forcefully for a gentler approach to patient care that does not let ideology or turf wars get in the way of real world evidence of benefit.”