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Health in early America was generally good. The food was plentiful, the air and water were clean, and people tended to enjoy strong constitutions as a result of this environment. Practitioners of traditional forms of health care enjoyed high social status, and the cures they offeredâfrom purging to mere palliativesâcarried a powerful authority. Consequently, most American doctors felt little need to keep up with Europeâs medical advances relying heavily on their traditional depletion methods. However, in the years following the American Revolution as poverty increased and Americaâs water and air became more polluted, people grew sicker. Traditional medicine became increasingly ineffective. Instead, Americans sought out both older and newer forms of alternative medicine and people who embraced these methods: midwives, folk healers, Native American shamans, African obeahs and the new botanical and water cure advocates. Â In this overview of health and healing in early America, Elaine G. Breslaw describes the evolution of public health crises and solutions. Breslaw examines âethnic borrowingsâ (of both disease and treatment) of early American medicine and the tension between trained doctors and the lay public. While orthodox medicine never fully lost its authority, Lotions, Potions, Pills, and Magic argues that their ascendance over other healers didnât begin until the early twentieth century, as germ theory finally migrated from Europe to the United States and American medical education achieved professional standing.
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9780814787175 | New York Univ Pr, October 15, 2012, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Health in early America was generally good.
Paperback:
9781479807048 | Reprint edition (New York Univ Pr, March 1, 2014), cover price $25.00
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9780807132784 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, January 1, 2008, cover price $55.00
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9780814798508 | New York Univ Pr, January 1, 2001, cover price $85.00
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9780814798515 | New York Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $30.00
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9780814712276 | New York Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: Traces the life of the Salem 'witch'
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9780814713075 | New York Univ Pr, November 1, 1997, cover price $27.00
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9780252013348 | Univ of Illinois Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $49.95
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