In Norman Gevitz’s compilation, Other Healers, nine authors, including Gevitz, analyze alternative medical practices, compare and contrast theses alternatives to mainstream or orthodox medicine, and present both the unorthodox practitioners’ and the mainstream advocates’ responses to the other’s profession. Gevitz, being the editor and a contributing writer, serves a dual function in his historical account of alternative medicine. The first selection of the book deals with the definition, understanding, and reaction that orthodox …showed first 75 words of 1324 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1324 total…his background is that four other works of his exist. They examine such topics as osteopathic medicine, medical sectarianism, and medical licensing. It is, therefore, in my opinion that this collaboration of assorted alternative medical practices achieves its goal in presenting a relatively lucid and exacting picture of unorthodox medicine and its healers, and attains status in the archives of medical history writings. And thus we see that there truly are many faces of healing.