Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America / James C. Whorton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Whorton, James C., 1942- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Alternative medicine--United States--History.

Alternative medicine.

Alternative medicine--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 from 1800 onwards.

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.

Notes:

Notes: p. 311-359.

Includes indexes.

Previously issued in print: 2002.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028633-4

0-19-770771-8

1-280-48148-X

9786610481484

0-19-534978-4

1-60256-823-5

OCLC:

173511392