Nature cures [electronic resource] : the history of alternative medicine in America / James C. Whorton.
Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002.Description: xv, 368 p. : illSubject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:- 615.5/0973 21
- R733 .W495 2002eb
Notes: p. 311-359.
Includes indexes.
Machine generated contents note: 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. Magnetism 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.
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