Papers from seminars sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and held in 1981 and 1984. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Before the fringe : "quackery" and the eighteenth-century medical market / Roy Porter -- Hydropathy in Matlock / Kelvin Rees -- Professional organisation and the development of medical knowledge : two interpretations of homoeopathy / Glynis Rankin -- Alternative medicine, alternative cosmology / Roger Cooter -- The nineteenth-century afterlife of Paracelsus / Charles Webster -- An imponderable liberator : J.J. Garth Wilkinson / Logie Barrow -- Theatre and laboratory : medical attitudes to animal magnetism in late-nineteenth-century Italy / Patrizia Guarnieri -- Medical botany around 1850 : American medicine in industrial Britain / Ursula Miley and John V. Pickstone -- Andrew Taylor Still and the social origins of osteopathy / Norman Gevitz.
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