<p>"A fascinating introduction to a multifaceted and complexly negotiated reality that is so often obscured under the not terribly illuminating label of complementary and alternative medicine. Indispensable for any student of North American health care and its twentieth-century development<br />." -- Charles E. Rosenberg, Department of the History of Science, Harvard University, is the author of Explaining Epidemics, The Care of Strangers<br />"This collection of essays offers both wide-ranging and elegant analyses of alternative medicine in the United States. From anti-vaccination and anti-fluoridation to alternative cancer care and health foods, the exceptional scholars represented in this volume set a new standard for historical reflections on the political cultures of medicine and healing in twentieth-century America. The book will be essential to anyone--policymakers, insurers, historians, regular physicians, alternative practitioners, and patients-- interested in the histories of alternative medicine and why, in the 1990s, complementary and alternative medicine transformed the health landscape. Historian Robert D. Johnston has performed a magisterial act of scholarship in bringing new light and provocative observation to the complex issues in healing in modern America<br />." -- Susan E. Lederer is the author of Subjected to Science: Human Experimentation in America Before the Second World War<br />"This openness to nuance and complexity makes this volume an essential reference work for anyone interest in understanding more clearly why more than 40 percent of adult Americans now use at least one form of alternative medicine." -- <em>The Journal of American History</em></p>

<p>This collection of essays is remarkably even in both quality and perspective...Even though alternative medicines encompass a strong leftist countercultural component, the essays in this volume poignantly demonstrate the many instances in which alternative medicides have forged connections with oppositional subcultures on the political or cultural right.. This openness to nuance and complexity makes this volume an essential reference work for anyone interest in understanding more clearly why more than 40 percent of adult Americans now use at least one form of Alternative medicine. </p><p><em>-The Journal of American History</em></p>