Studies In The History Of Alternative MedicineA collection of essays focused largely on the 19th century when alternative medicine as opposed to orthodox medicine was not accepted as "professional". Historians in this book explore the dissent which arose in various local and national contexts. |
Contents
Quackery and the EighteenthCentury | 1 |
Hydropathy in Matlock | 28 |
Professional Organisation and the Development of Medical | 46 |
Alternative Medicine Alternative Cosmology | 76 |
Medical Attitudes to Animal | 118 |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
advertised allopathy alternative medicine animal magnetism became body bone-setter Botanic Britain British Chartists claimed Coffin Coffinites College culture cure disease doctors doctrine Donato drugs eighteenth century élite England Epps established Georgian Guido di Tella Hahnemann healers healing herbal heterodox heterodox medicine History of Medicine homoeopathy hydro hydropathy hypnotic Ibid interest interpretation of homoeopathy irregular medicine John John Epps John Smedley Journal knowledge Lancet lectures Lombroso London magnetismo animale Manchester Matlock medical botany Medical Fringe Medical History medical practice medical profession mesmerism Morselli natural nineteenth century Norman Gevitz nostrums organisation orthodox medicine osteopathy Paracelsus patients persons physicians Pickstone plebeian political popular positivist Practical Hydropathy practitioners professional psychiatry quack quackery radical reform regular remedies Roy Porter Royal science and medicine scientific Smedley Smedley's social Society spiritualism Still's Swedenborgian theory therapeutic therapy Thomsonian treatment Turin unorthodox vaccination Victorian Whigs Wilkinson William