Before he became Britain's monarch, King Charles III faced criticism over the years for promoting alternative medical therapies and treatments. In 2019 for example, he received pushback for becoming a ...

Before the fringe : "quackery" and the eighteenth-century medical market / Roy Porter -- Hydropathy in Matlock / Kelvin Rees -- Professional organisation and the development of medical knowledge : two ...

Introduction : the politics of healing / Robert D. Johnston-- Negotiating dissent : homeopathy and anti-vaccinationism at the turn of the twentieth century / Nadav Davidovitch -- Making friends for ...

During her time working with underserved communities in southwest Philadelphia, Maureen George encountered many unconventional asthma treatments, including the use of homemade botanical teas or tonics ...

Health and Human Services Secretary RFK Jr. said on a recent podcast that he would “end the war at the FDA against alternative medicine.” He also said that Americans should be able to get experimental ...

Down in his basement office in the University Medical Center, James Whorton has misplaced his amputation saw. He looks around, concerned. It's not on the shelf with the jar of leeches. Not with the ...

Based on: Nature Cures: The History of Alternative Medicine in America, By James C. Whorton. 368 pp. New York, Oxford University Press, 2002. $30., 0-19-514071-0 One of the bits of doggerel that James ...

At the Kirksville College of Osteopathic Medicine, a museum is dedicated to the history of the medical practice founded in 1892 by Andrew Taylor Still. Osteopathy takes a "whole person" approach to ...