The politics of healing : histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America / Robert D. Johnston, editor.

Date:
2004
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Publication/Creation

Routledge ; London : New York, 2004.

Physical description

viii, 386 pages ; 26 cm

Contents

Introduction : the politics of healing / Robert D. Johnston-- Negotiating dissent : homeopathy and anti-vaccinationism at the turn of the twentieth century / Nadav Davidovitch -- Making friends for "pure" homeopathy : Hahnemannians and the twentieth-century preservation and transformation of homeopathy / Anne Taylor Kirschmann -- Revisiting the "golden age" of regular medicine : the politics of alternative cancer care in Canada, 1900-1950 / Barbara Clow -- Science and the shadow of ideology in the American health foods movement, 1930s-1960s / Michael Ackerman.
"Voodoo death" : fantasy, excitement, and the untenable boundaries of biomedical science / Otniel E. Dror -- Western medicine and Navajo healing : conflict and compromise / Wade Davies -- Sister Kenny goes to Washington : polio, populism, and medical politics in postwar America / Naomi Rogers -- The lunatic fringe strikes back : conservative opposition to the Alaska Mental Health Bill of 1956 / Michelle M. Nickerson -- "Not a so-called democracy" : anti-fluoridationists and the fight over drinking water / Gretchen Ann Reilly.
Engendering alternatives : women's health care choices and feminist medical rebellions / Amy Sue Bix -- Inside-out : holism and history in Toronto's women's health movements / Georgina Feldberg -- A quiet movement : Orisha and the healing of people, spirit, history, and community / Velana Huntington -- The politics and poetics of "magazine medicine" : New Age Ayurveda in the print media / Sita Reddy -- Cam cancer therapies in twentieth century North America : the emergence and growth of a social movement / David J. Hess.
Beyond the culture wars : the politics of alternative health / Matthew Schneirov and Jonathan David Geczik -- Contemporary anti-vaccination movements in historical perspective / Robert D. Johnston -- From cultism to cam : alternative medicine in the twentieth century / James C. Whorton.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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    History of Medicine
    CD.6.AA9
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  • 0415933390
  • 0415933382