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Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America
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Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America

Author: James C Whorton
Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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This text establishes historical context for the contemporary debate over the role of unconventional medicine in health care by examining the evolution of the major alternative systems in America  Read more...

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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: James C Whorton
ISBN: 0195171624 : 9780195171624
OCLC Number: 56443385
Notes: Originally published: 2002.
Description: 384 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents: 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 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?
Responsibility: James C. Whorton.

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