Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America /
Whorton, James C., 1942-
Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America / James C. Whorton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002. - xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes: p. 311-359. Includes indexes.
PT. 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. PT. 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. PT. 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?
0195140710
2002022023
Alternative medicine--History.--United States
Alternative medicine--History--United States--20th century.
R733 / .W495 2002
615.5/0973
Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America / James C. Whorton. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2002. - xv, 368 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes: p. 311-359. Includes indexes.
PT. 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. PT. 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. PT. 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?
0195140710
2002022023
Alternative medicine--History.--United States
Alternative medicine--History--United States--20th century.
R733 / .W495 2002
615.5/0973