James C Whorton: 2 books
Nature Cures
The History of Alternative Medicine in America
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2002
From reflexology and rolfing to shiatsu and dream work, we are confronted today by a welter of alternative medical therapies. But as James Whorton shows in Nature Cures, the recent explosion in alternative medicine actually reflects two centuries of competition and conflict between mainstream medicine...
The Arsenic Century:How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
How Victorian Britain was Poisoned at Home, Work, and Play
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2011
Arsenic is rightly infamous as the poison of choice for Victorian murderers. Yet the great majority of fatalities from arsenic in the nineteenth century came not from intentional poisoning, but from accident.Kept in many homes for the purpose of poisoning rats, the white powder was easily mistaken...