HISTORIES OF MEDICINE AND HEALING IN THE INDIAN OCEAN: THE MODERN PERIOD

By J. JORAL

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION THE POLITICS OF HEALING PRECURSORS: THE YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS NEGOTIATING DISSENT HOMEOPATHY AND ANTI-VACCINATIONISM AT THE TURN OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY MAKING FRIENDS FOR “PURE” HOMEOPATHY HAHNEMANNIANS AND THE TWENTIETH-CENTURY PRESERVATION AND TRANSFORMATION OF HOMEOPATHY SCIENCE AND THE SHADOW OF IDEOLOGY IN THE AMERICAN HEALTH FOODS MOVEMENT, 1930S–1960S INTERSECTIONS: ALLOPATHIC MEDICINE MEETS ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE “VOODOO DEATH” FANTASY, EXCITEMENT, AND THE UNTENABLE BOUNDARIES OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE WESTERN MEDICINE AND NAVAJO HEALING CONFLICT AND COMPROMISE CONTESTING THE COLD WAR MEDICAL MONOPOLY SISTER KENNY GOES TO WASHINGTON POLIO, POPULISM, AND MEDICAL POLITICS IN POSTWAR AMERICA THE LUNATIC FRINGE STRIKES BACK CONSERVATIVE OPPOSITION TO THE ALASKA MENTAL HEALTH BILL OF “NOT A SO-CALLED DEMOCRACY” ANTI-FLUORIDATIONISTS AND THE FIGHT OVER DRINKING WATER CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES/CONTEMPORARY LEGACIES ENGENDERING ALTERNATIVES WOMEN’S HEALTH CARE CHOICES AND FEMINIST MEDICAL REBELLIONS INSIDE-OUT HOLISM AND HISTORY IN TORONTO’S WOMEN’S HEALTH MOVEMENTS A QUIET MOVEMENT ORISHA AND THE HEALING OF PEOPLE, SPIRIT, HISTORY, AND COMMUNITY THE POLITICS AND POETICS OF “MAGAZINE MEDICINE” NEW AGE AYURVEDA IN THE PRINT MEDIA CAM CANCER THERAPIES IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY NORTH AMERICA THE EMERGENCE AND GROWTH OF A SOCIAL MOVEMENT BEYOND THE CULTURE WARS THE POLITICS OF ALTERNATIVE HEALTH CONCLUSIONS CONTEMPORARY ANTI-VACCINATION MOVEMENTS IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE FROM CULTISM TO CAM ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY