Title: Studies in the history of alternative medicine /
Authors: Cooter, Roger.; Society for the Social History of Medicine.
Date: 1988
Publisher: Macmillan press in association with St. Antony's College, Oxford,
Physical description: xx, 180 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: R
Contents: Before the fringe / Roy Porter -- Hydropathy in Matlock / Kelven Rees -- Professional organisation and the development of medical knowledge / Glynis Rankin -- Alternative medicine / Roger Cooter -- Nineteenth-century afterlife of Paracelsus / Charles Webster -- Imponderable liberator / Logie Barrow -- Theatre and laboratory / Patrizia Guarnieri -- Medical botany around 1850 / Ursula Miley and John V. Pickstone -- Andrew Taylor Still and the social origins of osteopathy / Norman Gevitz.
Notes: Papers from seminars sponsored by the Society for the Social History of Medicine and held in 1981 and 1984.
Subject headings (LCSH): Alternative medicine--History--Congresses.