Studies In The History Of Alternative Medicine

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xx

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2. Before the Fringe: ‘Quackery’ and the Eighteenth-Century Medical Market

   • Roy Porter

   Pages 1-27

3. Water as a Commodity: Hydropathy in Matlock

   • Kelvin Rees

   Pages 28-45

4. Professional Organisation and the Development of Medical Knowledge: Two Interpretations of Homoeopathy

   • Glynis Rankin

   Pages 46-62

5. Alternative Medicine, Alternative Cosmology

   • Roger Cooter

   Pages 63-78

6. The Nineteenth-Century Afterlife of Paracelsus

   • Charles Webster

   Pages 79-88

7. An Imponderable Liberator: J.J. Garth Wilkinson

   • Logie Barrow

   Pages 89-117

8. Theatre and Laboratory: Medical Attitudes to Animal Magnetism in Late-Nineteenth-Century Italy

   • Patrizia Guarnieri

   Pages 118-139

9. Medical Botany around 1850: American Medicine in Industrial Britain

   • Ursula Miley, John V. Pickstone

   Pages 140-154

10. Andrew Taylor Still and the Social Origins of Osteopathy

    • Norman Gevitz

    Pages 155-170

11. Back Matter

    Pages 171-180

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A 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.

• alternative medicine
• history
• history of literature
• history of mathematics
• medicine
• story

• Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester, UK

  Roger Cooter

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