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Title Other healers : unorthodox medicine in America / edited by Norman Gevitz.

Publication Info. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [1988]
©1988

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  R733 .O86 1988    Available  ---
Description x, 302 pages ; 23 cm
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 265-291.
Note Includes index.
Contents Three perspectives on unorthodox medicine / Norman Gevitz -- Botanical movements and orthodox medicine / William G. Rothstein -- Patient, heal thyself: popular health reform movements as unorthodox medicine / James C. Whorton -- Gender, ideology, and the water-cure movement / Susan E. Cayleff -- Homeopathy in America: the rise and fall and persistence of a medical heresy / Martin Kaufman -- Osteopathic medicine: from deviance to difference / Norman Gevitz -- Chiropractors: evolution to acceptance / Walter I. Wardwell -- Christian Science healing in America / Rennie B. Schoepflin -- Divine healing in modern American Protestantism / David Edwin Harrell, Jr. -- Contemporary folk medicine / David J. Hufford.
Subject Alternative medicine -- United States -- History.
Alternative medicine.
United States.
History.
Healing -- United States -- History.
Healing.
Added Author Gevitz, Norman.
Other Form: Online version: Other healers. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1988 (OCoLC)579943152
Online version: Other healers. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1988 (OCoLC)607871049
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