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Other Healers

Unorthodox Medicine in America

edited by Norman Gevitz

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This book deserves an unambiguous welcome as an overview of American irregular medicine which is simultaneously comprehensive (it ranges smoothly from traditional folk medicine and early nineteenth-century medical botany up to Oral Roberts and contemporary chiropractic) and compact (all this in three hundred pages).

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9
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324
ISBN
9780801837104
Table of Contents

Preface
Chapter 1. Three Perspectives on Unorthodox Medicine
Chapter 2. The Botanical Movements and Orthodox Medicine
Chapter 3. Patient, Heal Thyself: Popular Health Reform Movements as Unorthodox

Preface
Chapter 1. Three Perspectives on Unorthodox Medicine
Chapter 2. The Botanical Movements and Orthodox Medicine
Chapter 3. Patient, Heal Thyself: Popular Health Reform Movements as Unorthodox Medicine
Chapter 4. Gender, Ideology, and the Water-Cure Movement
Chapter 5. Homeopathy in America: The Rise and Fall and Persistence of a Medical Heresy
Chapter 6. Osteopathic Medicine: From Deviance to Difference
Chapter 7. Chiropractors: Evolution to Acceptance
Chapter 8. Christian Science Healing in America
Chapter 9. Divine Healing in Modern American Protestantism
Chapter 10. Contemporary Folk Medicine
References
List of Contributors
Index

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Norman Gevitz
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Norman Gevitz

Norman Gevitz is a professor of the history and sociology of medicine and the senior vice president—academic affairs at the A. T. Still University of Health Sciences. He is the editor of Other Healers: Unorthodox Medicine in America.