TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction
Guenter B. Risse

From Buchan to Fishbein: The Literature of Domestic Medicine
John B. Blake

Why Self-Help? Americans Alone With their Diseases, 1800-1850
James H. Cassedy

Do-It-Yourself the Sectarian Way
Ronald L. Numbers

Nineteenth-Century Health Reforms and Women: A Program of Self-Help
Regina Markell Morantz

Patent Medicines and the Self-Help Syndrome
James Harvey Young

Contributors
Index