Thesis ID: CBB001561659

Vertebral Vitalism: American Metaphysics and the Birth of Chiropractic (2006)

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Folk, Holly (Author)


Indiana University
Stein, Stephen J.


Publication Date: 2006
Edition Details: Advisor: Stein, Stephen J.
Physical Details: 378 pp.
Language: English

My dissertation contributes to the study of alternative religion and medicine by examining the early history of chiropractic. My work focuses on the lives and thought of Daniel David Palmer and his son Joshua Bartlett Palmer. In creating chiropractic, D.D. Palmer and B.J. Palmer drew on a distinct physiology that had broad public support through much of the nineteenth century. Health ideology was one manifestation of a greater popular intellectual culture, which carried a set of metaphysical ideas that informed both American spiritual and scientific understandings. These ideas derived from eighteenth-century and older European vitalism and created a common logic for popular conceptions about physiology that recurred in the theories of many irregular medical systems. Today, chiropractic is the most successful form of alternative medicine in America. Despite widespread acknowledgment that it has become part of "mainstream" healthcare, however, chiropractic continues to reflect many of the impulses associated with its early history. Furthermore, themes in the chiropractic story have resonated across a wide range of American healing and spiritual movements.

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Description Cited in Diss. Abstr. Int. A 67/06 (2006). UMI pub. no. 3223040.


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Authors & Contributors
Haller, John S.
Stahnisch, Frank W.
Baer, Hans A.
Cayleff, Susan E.
Folk, Holly
Furth, Charlotte
Journals
Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine
História, Ciências, Saúde---Manguinhos
Canadian Bulletin of Medical History/Bulletin Canadienne d'Histoire de la Medecine
Medizin, Gesellschaft, und Geschichte
Publishers
Indiana University
Alfred A. Knopf
AMS Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Kent State University Press
Oxford University Press
Concepts
Alternative medicine
Medicine
Homeopathy
Therapeutic practice; therapy; treatment
Authority of medicine
Medicine and gender
People
Flexner, Abraham
Copeland, Royal S. (Royal Samuel)
Kardec, Allan
Schulze, Richard
Palmer, Daniel David
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
20th century, early
20th century, late
21st century
Places
United States
Brazil
North America
Great Britain
China
Germany
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