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Format: XIV, 237 S. : , Ill.

ISBN: 978-0-8147-8717-5 , 978-0-8147-8718-2 , 978-0-8147-3938-9

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Keywords: Medizin ; Gesundheitswesen

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Format: 1 online resource

ISBN: 9780814739389

Content: Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered—from purging to mere palliatives—carried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europe’s medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and America’s water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ineffective. Instead, Americans sought out both older and newer forms of alternative medicine and people who embraced these methods: midwives, folk healers, Native American shamans, African obeahs and the new botanical and water cure advocates.In this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines “ethnic borrowings” (of both disease and treatment) of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. While orthodox medicine never fully lost its authority, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic argues that their ascendance over other healers didn’t begin until the early twentieth century, as germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. Columbian Exchange -- , 2. Epidemics -- , 3. Tools of the Trade -- , 4. Abundance -- , 5. Wartime -- , 6. New Nation -- , 7. Giving Birth -- , 8. The Face of Madness -- , 9. Democratic Medicine -- , 10. Public Health -- , Conclusion -- , Epilogue -- , Abbreviations -- , Bibliographic Essay -- , Index -- , About the Author , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814739389

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739389

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814739389

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Format: 1 online resource : , illustrations (black and white)

ISBN: 9780814739389 (ebook) :

Content: In this overview of health and healing in early America, Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. She examines oethnic borrowingso of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public.

Additional Edition: Print version : ISBN 9780814787175

Language: English

URL: New York scholarship online

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Format: 1 online resource (252 p.)

Edition: 1st ed.

ISBN: 0-8147-3938-5

Content: Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offered—from purging to mere palliatives—carried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europe’s medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and America’s water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ineffective. Instead, Americans sought out both older and newer forms of alternative medicine and people who embraced these methods: midwives, folk healers, Native American shamans, African obeahs and the new botanical and water cure advocates.In this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines “ethnic borrowings” (of both disease and treatment) of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. While orthodox medicine never fully lost its authority, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic argues that their ascendance over other healers didn’t begin until the early twentieth century, as germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing.

Note: Description based upon print version of record. , Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , List of Illustrations -- , Acknowledgments -- , Introduction -- , 1. Columbian Exchange -- , 2. Epidemics -- , 3. Tools of the Trade -- , 4. Abundance -- , 5. Wartime -- , 6. New Nation -- , 7. Giving Birth -- , 8. The Face of Madness -- , 9. Democratic Medicine -- , 10. Public Health -- , Conclusion -- , Epilogue -- , Abbreviations -- , Bibliographic Essay -- , Index -- , About the Author , English

Additional Edition: ISBN 1-4798-0704-4

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-8147-8717-7

Language: English

DOI: 10.18574/9780814739389