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This book deserves an unambiguous welcome as an overview of American irregular medicine which is simultaneously comprehensive (it ranges smoothly from traditional folk medicine and early nineteenth-century medical botany up to Oral Roberts and contemporary chiropractic) and compact (all this in three hundred pages).
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Available
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6
x 9
Pages
324
ISBN
9780801837104
Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1. Three Perspectives on Unorthodox Medicine
Chapter 2. The Botanical Movements and Orthodox Medicine
Chapter 3. Patient, Heal Thyself: Popular Health Reform Movements as Unorthodox
Preface
Chapter 1. Three Perspectives on Unorthodox Medicine
Chapter 2. The Botanical Movements and Orthodox Medicine
Chapter 3. Patient, Heal Thyself: Popular Health Reform Movements as Unorthodox Medicine
Chapter 4. Gender, Ideology, and the Water-Cure Movement
Chapter 5. Homeopathy in America: The Rise and Fall and Persistence of a Medical Heresy
Chapter 6. Osteopathic Medicine: From Deviance to Difference
Chapter 7. Chiropractors: Evolution to Acceptance
Chapter 8. Christian Science Healing in America
Chapter 9. Divine Healing in Modern American Protestantism
Chapter 10. Contemporary Folk Medicine
References
List of Contributors
Index
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