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Studies In The History Of Alternative Medicine

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  • © 1988

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Editors:
  1. Roger Cooter

    1. Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine, University of Manchester, UK

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Part of the book series: St Antony's Series (STANTS)

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

Editors and Affiliations

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

    Roger Cooter

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Studies In The History Of Alternative Medicine

  • Editors: Roger Cooter

  • Series Title: St Antony's Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-19606-7

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1988

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-333-46213-3Published: 24 November 1988

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-19606-7Published: 24 November 1988

  • Series ISSN: 2633-5964

  • Series E-ISSN: 2633-5972

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 180

  • Topics: Cultural Studies, Complementary & Alternative Medicine

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