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

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

xv, 368 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Notes: p. 311-359.

Includes indexes.

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.