The Politics of Healing (eBook, ePUB)

Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America
Redaktion: Johnston, Robert D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Takes on controversial issues like alternative treatment for cancer and research funded by pharmaceutical companiesExplores the historical roots of anti-vaccination movementsExamines the role of food in alternative medicine and the health food movement of the mid-20th century

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135953904
• Artikelnr.: 47892983

Autorenporträt

Robert D. Johnston is Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Education in the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

Robert D. Johnston
Introduction: The Politics of Healing PRECURSORS: THE YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS Nadav Davidovitch
Negotiating Dissent: Homeopathy and Anti-Vaccinationism at the Turn of the 20th Century Anne Taylor Kirschmann
Making Friends for 'Pure' Homeopathy: Hahnemannians and the Twentieth-Century Preservation and Transformation of Homeopathy Barbara Clow
Revisiting the 'Golden Age' of Regular Medicine: The Politics of Alternative Cancer Care in Ontario
1900-1950 Michael Ackerman
Science and the Shadow of Ideology in the American Health Foods Movement
1930s-1960s INTERSECTIONS: ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE MEETS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Otniel E. Dror
'Voodoo Death': Fantasy
Excitement
and the Untenable Boundaries of Biomedical Science Wade Davies
Western Medicine and Navajo Healing: Conflict and Compromise CONTESTING THE COLD WAR MEDICAL MONOPOLY Naomi Rogers
Sister Kenny Goes to Washington: An Unorthodox Nurse
Polio
and Medical Populism in Postwar America Michelle M. Nickerson
'It Could Happen Here': California Housewives
Anti-Communism and the Alaska Mental Health Bill of 1956 Gretchen Ann Reilly
'Not a so-called democracy': Antifluoridationists and the Fight Over Drinking Water CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES/CONTEMPORARY LEGACIES Amy Sue Bix
Engendering Alternatives: Women's Health-Care Choices and Feminist Medical Rebellions Georgina Feldberg
Inside-Out: Holism and History in Toronto's Women's Health Movements Velana Huntington
A Quiet Movement: Orisha and the Healing of People
Spirit
History
and Community Sita Reddy
The Politics and Poetics of 'Magazine Medicine': New Age Ayurveda in the Print Media David J. Hess
Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cancer Therapies in Twentieth- Century North America: The Emergence and Growth of a Social Movement Matthew Schneirov and Jonathan David Geczik
Beyond the Culture Wars: The Politics of Alternative Health CONCLUSIONS Robert D. Johnston
Contemporary Anti-Vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective James C. Whorton
From Cultism to CAM: Alternative Medicine in the Twentieth Century