TY - BOOK AU - Whorton,James C. TI - Nature cures: the history of alternative medicine in America SN - 0195140710 AV - R733 .W495 2002 U1 - 615.5/0973 21 PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford, New York PB - Oxford University Press KW - Alternative medicine KW - United States KW - History KW - 20th century N1 - 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? ER -