Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America /
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| Author / Creator: | Whorton, James C., 1942- |
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| 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 |
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
