Studies In The History Of Alternative Medicine

(Hardback, 1988 ed.)

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A collection of essays focused largely on the nineteenth-century, illuminating a period when the medical market was highly differentiated and in the face of orthodox medicine only being regarded as "professional", dissent was rife. Historians and experts in particular fields explore aspects of the organization and expression of this dissent in various local and national contexts from the point of view of the history of the society, economics, mentalities, politics, philosophy, religion and literary culture. The author also wrote "The Cultural Meaning of Popular Science".