Before he became Britain's monarch, King Charles III faced criticism over the years for promoting alternative medical therapies and treatments. In 2019 for example, he received pushback for becoming a ...
From 1876 to 1943, Dr. John Harvey Kellogg was the director of the Battle Creek Sanitarium, a grand hotel, spa, and wellness center. He is perhaps better known for his invention of cornflakes, ...
Alternative medicine is often seen as alien by the world of mainstream medicine. But as James Whorton demonstrates in this engaging book, alternative therapies are not just part of other peoples’ ...
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 ...
During her time working with underserved communities in southwest Philadelphia, Maureen George encountered many unconventional asthma treatments, including the use of homemade botanical teas or tonics ...
The Nineteenth Century: Natural Healing -- The Hippocratic Heresy: Alternative Medicine's Worldview -- Every Man His Own Physician: Thomsonianism -- Dilutions of Grandeur: Homeopathy -- Physical ...
This is Decolonizing Alternative Medicine, a series dedicated to elevating the work of healers, medicine workers, and herbalists from traditions and cultures that span the globe. Paige Yang grew up ...
This is Decolonizing Alternative Medicine, a series dedicated to elevating the work of healers, medicine workers, and herbalists from traditions and cultures that span the globe. Aruna Bhargava first ...
Based on: Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America, By James C. Whorton. 368 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. $30., 0-19-514071-0 One of the bits of doggerel that James ...