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.