Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

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ISBN: 9780299166946 | 0299166945
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/1/2001

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(Univ. of Wisconsin Press) Univ. of Arkansas, Little Rock. Traces the simultaneous emergence in the 19th century of formalized biomedicine and of homeopathy, botanic medicine, hydropathy, Christian Science, osteopathy, and chiropractic. Examines osteopathic medicine as a system parallel to biomedicine, emphasizing primary care. Softcover, hardcover also available.

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Preface	p. vii
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 3
Nineteenth-Century American Medicine as a Pluralistic System	p. 7
The Rise of the American Dominative Medical System under Corporate Capitalism	p. 31
Osteopathic Medicine as a Parallel Medical System	p. 50
Chiropractic as the Foremost Professionalized Heterodox Medical System	p. 67
Naturopathy and Acupuncture as Secondary Professionalized Heterodox Medical Systems	p. 85
Partially Professionalized and Lay Heterodox Medical Systems within the Context of the Holistic Health Movement	p. 103
Anglo-American Religious and Metaphysical Healing Systems	p. 121
Folk Medical Systems in a Culturally Diverse Society	p. 144
Conclusion	p. 179
Bibliography	p. 193
Index	p. 217
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Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender

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