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Author Whorton, James C., 1942-

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

Publication Info. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2002]
©2002

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Location Call No. Status
 Enfield, Main Library - Adult Department  615.5 WHO    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  615.5 WHORTON    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  615.5097 WHORTON    Check Shelf
Description xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Note Notes: p. 311-359.
Includes indexes.
Contents The Nineteenth Century: Natural Healing -- The Hippocratic Heresy: Alternative Medicine's Worldview -- Every Man His Own Physician: Thomsonianism -- Dilutions of Grandeur: Homeopathy -- Physical Puritanism: Hygeiotherapy -- Magnetism and Mind: From Mesmerism to Christian Science -- The Early Twentieth Century: Drugless Healing -- The Licensing Question: The Campaign for Medical Freedom -- The Rule of the Artery: Osteopathy -- Innate Intelligence: Chiropractic -- Therapeutic Universalism: Naturopathy -- The Late Twentieth Century: Holistic Healing -- From Medical Cultism to Alternative Medicine -- The Holistic Health Explosion: Acupuncture -- From Alternative Medicine to Complementary Medicine.
Subject Alternative medicine -- United States -- History.
Alternative medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Complementary Therapies -- history -- United States.
History of Medicine -- 19th Cent. -- United States.
History of Medicine -- 20th Cent. -- United States.
ISBN 0195140710
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