Book ID: CBB757429927

Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America (2016)

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An alternative medical system emphasizing prevention through healthy living, positive mind-body-spirit strength, and therapeutics to enhance the body’s innate healing processes, naturopathy has gained legitimacy in recent years. In Nature’s Path―the first comprehensive book to examine the complex history and culture of American naturopathy―Susan E. Cayleff tells the fascinating story of the movement’s nineteenth-century roots. While early naturopaths were sometimes divided by infighting, they all believed in the healing properties of water, nutrition, exercise, the sun, and clean, fresh air. Their political activism was vital to their professional formation: they loathed the invasive, depletive practices of traditional medicine and protested against medical procedures that addressed symptoms rather than disease causes while resisting processed foods, pharmaceuticals, environmental toxins, and atomic energy. Cayleff describes the development of naturopathy’s philosophies and therapeutics and details the efforts of its proponents to institutionalize the field. She recognizes notable naturopathic leaders, explores why women doctors, organizers, teachers, and authors played such a strong role in the movement, and identifies countercultural views―such as antivivisection, antivaccination, and vegetarianism―held by idealistic naturopaths from 1896 to the present. Nature’s Path tracks a radical cultural critique, medical system, and way of life that links body, soul, mind, and daily purpose. It is a must-read for historians of medicine and scholars in women’s studies and political history, as well as for naturopaths and all readers interested in alternative medicine.

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Review Jonathan Engel (2017) Review of "Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America". American Historical Review (pp. 854-855). unapi

Review Mike Saks (2017) Review of "Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America". Social History of Medicine (pp. 711-712). unapi

Review Eric Boyle (2018) Review of "Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America". Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences (pp. 106-108). unapi

Review Avi Sharma (2017) Review of "Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 728-729). unapi

Review Nancy Tomes (2017) Review of "Nature's Path: A History of Naturopathic Healing in America". Bulletin of the History of Medicine (pp. 137-139). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
García-Alandete, Joaquín
Wilson, F. J. H.
Chang, Rhonda
Winnick, Terri Anne
Watkins, Elizabeth Siegel
Vankevich, Ned
Concepts
Alternative medicine
Medicine
Authority of medicine
Health
Medicine and society
Medicine and gender
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, early
20th century, late
Places
United States
China
Australia
Massachusetts (U.S.)
Great Britain
Vienna (Austria)
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