Today, one out of every three Americans uses some form of alternative medicine, either along with their conventional (“standard,” “traditional”) medicat

Looks at the relationship between medicine, religion, and mass media in the United States.

A timely, authoritative, and entertaining history of medicine in America by an eminent physician Despite all that has been written and said about American medic

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