Nature cures the history of alternative medicine in America /
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
c2002.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.