Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine / Erika Janik.

  • Janik, Erika
Date:
[2014]
  • Books

About this work

Also known as

Market place of the marvelous

Description

"A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures, and other alternative medicine in nineteenth-century America"--Dust jacket.

Publication/Creation

Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2014]

Physical description

337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Contributors

Contents

Medicine at the crossroads -- Every man his own physician : Thomson's botanic medicine -- The only true science of the mind : phrenology -- Quenching thirst, healing pain : hydropathy -- Dilutions of health : homeopathy -- Hypnotized : Mesmer and his mental magic -- Selling snake oil : patent medicine -- Manual medicine : osteopathy and chiropractic -- The fall and rise of alternative medicine.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-317) and index.

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Where to find it

  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    CD.6.AA8
    		Open shelves

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ISBN

  • 9780807022085
  • 080702208X