Other Healers

Unorthodox Medicine in America

Häftad, Engelska, 1988

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Beskrivning

Sixty million Americans have relied at some point in their lives on osteopaths, chiropractors, folk or religious healers, naturopaths, homeopaths, and acupuncturists; millions more employ alternative psychological systems, unorthodox diet and fitness programs, and a range of self-help treatments. Yet until recently, most historians and social scientists of medicine have assumed that unorthodox movements were of comparatively minor significance in the study of medicine and society. In "Other Healers" Norman Gevitz and eight other authors explore the most significant alternatives to orthodox medicine to have gained a place in American society from the early 19th century to the present. Neither advocating nor debunking these alternatives, they explore phenomena that range from Thomsonism, the early botanical system that was progenitor of the first native American sects,to the faith-healing of contemporary pentecostals and charasmatics; from the Water Cure Movement, which provided important support for the efforts of early feminist reformers, to osteopathy, whose practitioners are now licensed to offer the same range of services as M.D.'s.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:1988-11-26
Mått:152 x 229 x 19 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:324
Förlag:Johns Hopkins University Press
ISBN:9780801837104

Utforska kategorier

Medicinhistoria inom Medicin
Relationer inom Hälsa och familj

Mer om författaren

Norman Gevitz is professor of the history of medicine at Ohio University. He is the editor of Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America, also available from Johns Hopkins.

Recensioner i media

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

Innehållsförteckning

PrefaceChapter 1. Three Perspectives on Unorthodox MedicineChapter 2. The Botanical Movements and Orthodox MedicineChapter 3. Patient, Heal Thyself: Popular Health Reform Movements as Unorthodox MedicineChapter 4. Gender, Ideology, and the Water-Cure MovementChapter 5. Homeopathy in America: The Rise and Fall and Persistence of a Medical HeresyChapter 6. Osteopathic Medicine: From Deviance to DifferenceChapter 7. Chiropractors: Evolution to AcceptanceChapter 8. Christian Science Healing in AmericaChapter 9. Divine Healing in Modern American ProtestantismChapter 10. Contemporary Folk MedicineReferencesList of ContributorsIndex