Displaying 1 of 1 2014 Format: Book Author: Janik, Erika. Title: Marketplace of the marvelous : the strange origins of modern medicine / Erika Janik. Publisher, Date: Boston, Massachusetts : Beacon Press, [2014] Description: 337 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm Summary: "A history of botanical remedies, hypnotic suggestion, water cures, and other alternative medicine in nineteenth-century America"--Dust jacket. Subjects: Alternative medicine -- History. Medicine, Magic, mystic, and spagiric -- History. Medicine -- Specialties and specialists -- History. Medicine -- History. Other Title: Market place of the marvelous Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-317) and index. Contents: 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. LCCN: 2013023296 ISBN: 9780807022085 080702208X Other Number: 840477580 System Availability: 1 Current Holds: 0 # Local items: 1 Control Number: 399741 # Local items in: 1 # System items in: 1 Call Number: 610 Janik Place Hold Add to My List Expand All | Collapse All Availability Map It Suggestions and more Displaying 1 of 1
