Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America /

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Author / Creator:Whorton, James C., 1942-
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.
Description:xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4775668
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ISBN:0195140710
Notes:Notes: p. 311-359.
Includes indexes.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Part I. The Nineteenth Century: Natural Healing
  • 1.. The Hippocratic Heresy: Alternative Medicine's Worldview
  • 2.. Every Man His Own Physician: Thomsonianism
  • 3.. Dilutions of Grandeur: Homeopathy
  • 4.. Physical Puritanism: Hygeiotherapy
  • 5.. Mgnetism and Mind: From Mesmerism to Christian Science
  • Part II. The Early Twentieth Century: Drugless Healing
  • 6.. The Licensing Question: The Campaign for Medical Freedom
  • 7.. The Rule of the Artery: Osteopathy
  • 8.. Innate Intelligence: Chiropractic
  • 9.. Therapeutic Universalism: Naturopathy
  • Part III. The Late Twentieth Century: Holistic Healing
  • 10.. From Medical Cultism to Alternative Medicine
  • 11.. The Holistic Health Explosion: Acupuncture
  • 12.. From Alternative Medicine to Complementary Medicine
  • Conclusion: The Twenty-first Century: The Age of Curapathy?
  • Abbreviations
  • Notes
  • Index