The Politics of Healing

Robert D. Johnston is Associate Professor and Director of Teacher Education in the History Department at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Robert D. Johnston, Introduction: The Politics of Healing PRECURSORS: THE YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS Nadav Davidovitch, Negotiating Dissent: Homeopathy and Anti-Vaccinationism at the Turn of the 20th Century Anne Taylor Kirschmann, Making Friends for 'Pure' Homeopathy: Hahnemannians and the Twentieth-Century Preservation and Transformation of Homeopathy Barbara Clow, Revisiting the 'Golden Age' of Regular Medicine: The Politics of Alternative Cancer Care in Ontario, 1900-1950 Michael Ackerman, Science and the Shadow of Ideology in the American Health Foods Movement, 1930s-1960s INTERSECTIONS: ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE MEETS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE Otniel E. Dror, 'Voodoo Death': Fantasy, Excitement, and the Untenable Boundaries of Biomedical Science Wade Davies, Western Medicine and Navajo Healing: Conflict and Compromise CONTESTING THE COLD WAR MEDICAL MONOPOLY Naomi Rogers, Sister Kenny Goes to Washington: An Unorthodox Nurse, Polio, and Medical Populism in Postwar America Michelle M. Nickerson, 'It Could Happen Here': California Housewives, Anti-Communism and the Alaska Mental Health Bill of 1956 Gretchen Ann Reilly, 'Not a so-called democracy': Antifluoridationists and the Fight Over Drinking Water CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES/CONTEMPORARY LEGACIES Amy Sue Bix, Engendering Alternatives: Women's Health-Care Choices and Feminist Medical Rebellions Georgina Feldberg, Inside-Out: Holism and History in Toronto's Women's Health Movements Velana Huntington, A Quiet Movement: Orisha and the Healing of People, Spirit, History, and Community Sita Reddy, The Politics and Poetics of 'Magazine Medicine': New Age Ayurveda in the Print Media David J. Hess, Complementary and Alternative Medicine Cancer Therapies in Twentieth- Century North America: The Emergence and Growth of a Social Movement Matthew Schneirov and Jonathan David Geczik, Beyond the Culture Wars: The Politics of Alternative Health CONCLUSIONS Robert D. Johnston, Contemporary Anti-Vaccination Movements in Historical Perspective James C. Whorton, From Cultism to CAM: Alternative Medicine in the Twentieth Century