Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine /


Erika Janik.
Bok Engelsk 2014 · Electronic books
Omfang
1 online resource (337 pages ) : illustrations ;
Opplysninger
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - Medicine at the crossroads -- Every man his own physician : Thomson's botanic medicine -- The only true science of the mind : phrenology -- Quenching thirst, healing pain : hydropathy -- Dilutions of health : homeopathy -- Hypnotized : Mesmer and his mental magic -- Selling snake oil : patent medicine -- Manual medicine : osteopathy and chiropractic -- The fall and rise of alternative medicine.. - "A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures, and other alternative medicine in nineteenth-century America"--Dust jacket.
Emner
Alternative medicine - History
Medicine - History
Medicine - Specialties and specialists - History
Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric - History
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Sjanger
Dewey
610
ISBN
0-8070-2209-8

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