The Lost origins of Osteopathy and Chiropractic in European Mechanical Medicine and Physical Education, c. 1800-1950
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The Lost origins of Osteopathy and Chiropractic in European Mechanical Medicine and Physical Education, c. 1800-1950
About this book
This book examines the global history of allegedly scientific "mechanical" cures commonly used to combat internal and chronic diseases and explores how and why the professional demarcation between orthodox and irregular medicine evolved.
Now globally dispersed, the systems of osteopathy and chiropractic are considered as unique pieces of therapeutic Americana with no obvious inspirational counterpart found in the Old World. It is their similar monocausal and biomedically strange etiologies that have given them this status, namely that dislocations and subluxations of joints in the spine were the main source of disease. At the end of the 19th century, when osteopathy and chiropractic materialized in the USA, this was a spectacular claim. Notably, the Germ theory had its breakthrough, yet early osteopaths and chiropractors did not recognize it in favor of their dislocations and subluxations. This book presents a new answer regarding what formed their etiologies. Through a combination of many unutilized source materials with novel theoretical and methodical approaches, the systems of osteopathy and chiropractic are traced back and related to a seminal yet overlooked 19th-century European discourse of so-called mechanical medicine, which also permeated the USA.
Shedding new light on the professionalization and gendering of the modern healthcare system, this volume will be of value to students and scholars alike interested in the history of science, technology and medicine.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part I The use of history and professional conflicts: Some theoretical guidelines
- Part II Mapping the professional historical dots
- Part III A manipulated story: Kellgren, osteopathy, and mechanical medicine
- Part IV A new scenario that brings Kellgren, P. H. Ling, and osteopathy together in late 19th-century North America
- Part V From the prehistory of osteopathy: P. H. Ling and the mechanical medicine in the 19th century
- References
- Personal Index
- Subject Index