内容説明
The recent explosion of interest in alternative and complementary approaches to healing is the surprising culmination of a full two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream medicine and numerous unorthodox systems of treatment. Nature Cures establishes the historical context for contemporary debate over the role of unconventional medicine in health care by examining the evolution of the major alternative systems in America from 1800 to the present. These include botanical medicine, homeopathy, hypnotism and mental healing, osteopathy, chiropractic, naturopathy, and acupuncture, as well as a discussion of the European roots of systems not native to the United States. Attention is given to both the theories and therapies developed by each system and the interactions of each with the medical profession and with society at large. Particular emphasis is placed on the philosophy of "natural healing" that has been espoused by alternative practitioners throughout history and the distinctive interpretations of "nature cures" developed by the different systems.
目次
- PART 1: THE NINETEENTH CENTURY: NATURAL HEALING
- 1. The Hippocratic Heresy: Alternative Medicine's Worldview
- 2. Every Man His Own Physician: Thomsonianism
- 3. Dilutions of Grandeur: Homeopathy
- 4. Physical Puritanism: Hygieotherapy
- 5. Magnetism and Mind: From Mesmerism to Christian Science
- PART 2: THE EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY: DRUGLESS HEALING
- 6. The Licensing Question: The Campaign for Medical Freedom
- 7. The Rule of the Artery: Osteopathy
- 8. Innate Intelligence: Chiropractic
- 9. Therapeutic Universalism: Naturopathy
- PART 3: THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY: HOLISTIC HEALING
- 10. From Medical Cultism to Alternative Medicine
- 11. The Holistic Health Explosion
- 12. From Alternative Medicine to Complementary Medicine
- CONCLUSION: THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY: THE AGE OF CURAPATHY
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