Although I can't claim to have read either book, each looks interesting from a CAM - social science perspective. The first book was reviewed in the NYT's book section by Abigail Zucker, M.D. I was struck not so much by the content, but by the tone of her review of the book. Read the review and let me know what you think (and read the book too if you wish). I'd like more perspective on what exactly it is about 'alternative' ideals that creates the threat apparently felt by some in mainstream medicine.
Between Covers, an Anticancer Infomercial
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/07/health/07book.html?ref=health
Second, another read that is related to CAM from the historical perspective - women in medicine. Apologies for the crossposting - I clipped it from a list-serve.
Subject: New book on women physicians
From: "More, Ellen S"
Date: Tue, October 7, 2008 5:46 pm
>From Ellen More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry (with apologies for
cross-posting):
Ellen More, Elizabeth Fee, and Manon Parry are pleased to announce a
new, co-edited book from Johns Hopkins University Press, Women
Physicians and the Cultures of Medicine (2008). This volume examines the
diverse careers and lives of American women physicians since the
mid-19th century, their struggles for equality, professional
accomplishment, and personal happiness. Scholars in the history of
medicine in the United States chronicle the professional and personal
lives of women such as Drs. Marie Zakrzewska, Mary Putnam Jacobi, "Mom"
Chung, Esther Pohl Lovejoy, and Mary S. Calderone as well as women
physicians who were active in "alternative" medicine, the women's health
movement, college health, and second-wave medical feminism. Illuminating
the ethnic, political, and personal diversity of women physicians, the
articles touch on most of the major issues in the history of women
physicians-politics, medical science, medical education, health policy,
patient care, sexuality, race and ethnicity, and, or course, gender
discrimination. Contributors include Carla Bittel, Elizabeth Fee, Eve
Fine, Erica Frank, Virginia Metaxas, Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Ellen S.
More, Sandra Morgen, Heather M. Prescott, Robert Nye, Manon Parry, Naomi
Rogers, Arleen M. Tuchman, Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, and Susan Wells.
Ellen S. More, Ph.D.
Head, Office of Medical History and Archives
Lamar Soutter Library
and
Professor, Department of Psychiatry
UMass Medical School
55 Lake Ave. North
Worcester, MA 01655
ellen.more@umassmed.edu
508 856-7633 (phone)
508 856-5039 (fax)