A Second Voice : Ohio University Press : 9780821415931 : 082141593X : 31 Dec 2004 : Doctors of osteopathy today practice side by side with medical doctors, employing the same diagnostic and curative tools of scientific&;with a difference. A Second Voice: A Century of Osteopathic Medicine in Ohio is the story of that difference. Focusing on the historical experience of a pivotal midwestern state, historian Carol Poh Miller illuminates struggles common to osteopathic medicine nationwide as it fought to secure its place in American health care. First promulgated by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still in 1874, osteopathy was a reaction against the primitive medical practices of the period. Believing that the body had its own natural curative powers, Still manipulated vertebrae to free circulation and to remove pathology. Early osteopaths endured discrimination, as orthodox medicine and its allies sought to prevent the establishment of Still&;s new healing method. Written in conjunction with the one-