| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

The Politics of Healing: Histories of Alternative Medicine in Twentieth-Century North America. Ed. by Robert D. Johnston. (New York: Rout-ledge, 2004. x, 388 pp. Cloth, $90.00, ISBN 0-415-93338-2. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-415-93339-0.)

Robert D. Johnston has brought together seventeen original essays that explore the political histories of alternative medicine. These essays are only peripherally concerned with the politics of intergroup rivalry (for example, efforts to influence governmental regulation, competition over access to hospitals, or eligibility for insurance payments). Instead, they focus on the process whereby alternative medical systems have forged integral connections with oppositional political cultures. Each of the contributing authors explores the complex alliances that advocates of alternative medicine have made with other oppositional voices in the broader culture (for example, feminism, black nationalism, the 1960s counterculture, Christian conservatism). Taken together, these essays succeed in making a significant contribution not only to the study of alternative medicine but also to the wider study of twentieth-century North American culture.

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