Nature cures : the history of alternative medicine in America - Whorton, James C., 1942- (Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002)
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.
Notes: p. 311-359.
Includes indexes.
Keywords: Alternative medicine -- United States -- History; Alternative medicine -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Complementary Therapies -- History -- United States; History, 19th Century -- United States; History, 20th Century -- United States