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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). -- Roy Porter Bulletin of the History of Medicine

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 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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      Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 11/26/1988 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780801837104, 978-0801837104
      ISBN10: 0801837103
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      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). -- Roy Porter Bulletin of the History of Medicine

      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 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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