Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine / Erika Janik.
By: Janik, Erika.
BEACON 2014Description: 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9780807022085 (hardcover : acidfree paper).Subject(s): Alternative medicine -- History | Medicine -- History | Medicine -- Specialties and specialists -- History | Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- HistoryGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 610| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | R733 .J33 2014 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU0000000002737 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-317) and index.
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.