The politics of healing : histories of alternative medicine in twentieth-century North America /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Johnston, Robert D.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, 2004.
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Table of 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.