Studies in the history of alternative medicine
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Studies in the history of alternative medicine
（St. Antony's/Macmillan series）
Macmillan Press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford, c1988
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Papers from seminars sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and held in 1981 and 1984
Later printing published by Palgrave Macmillan
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
A collection of essays focused largely on the 19th century when alternative medicine as opposed to orthodox medicine was not accepted as "professional". Historians in this book explore the dissent which arose in various local and national contexts.
Table of Contents
- Before the fringe - "Quackery" and the eighteenth-century medical market, R.Porter
- the commodity water - hydropath in Matlock, K.Rees
- professional organization and the development of medical knowledge - two interpretations of homeopathy, G.Ranklin
- alternative medicine, alternative cosmology, R.Cooter
- the nineteenth-century afterlife of paracelsus, C.Webster
- an imponderable liberator - J.J.Garth Wilkinson, L.Barrow
- theatre and laboratory - medical attitudes to animal magnetism in late nineteenth-century Italy- P.Guarnieri
- medical botany around 1850 - American medicine in industrial Britain, U.Miley and J.Pickstone
- Andrew Taylor Still and the social origins of osteopathy, N.Gevitz.
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