| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.3

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Book Review

Biomedicine and Alternative Healing Systems in America: Issues of Class, Race, Ethnicity, and Gender. By Hans A. Baer. (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001. xii, 222 pp. Cloth, $55.00, ISBN 0-299-16690-2. Paper, $21.95, ISBN 0-299-16694-5.)

A fascinating history could be written about the pursuit of "alternative," so-called holistic healing in America over the last third of the twentieth century. Interpretatively, it might echo those historians of the British working class who have perceived the take-up of "physical puritanism" among radicals after the defeat of Chartism as an individualistic means to retaining political face. Possibly, for the WASP-ish survivors of the 1960s and 1970s counterculture, patronage of alternative medicine has provided something similar—the disposal of surplus income on non-establishment healers, granting the survivors a sense of continued faith with social and political values and aspirations marginalized in the 1980s and 1990s. . . .

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