Edwin F. (Edwin Frederick) Bowers

Edwin Frederick Bowers (1871–1949), usually published as Edwin F. Bowers, was an American writer on health and alternative medicine. He is especially associated with early zone therapy, a system later linked with reflexology, and he co-authored Zone Therapy with William H. Fitzgerald in 1917.

Bowers also wrote a range of books aimed at everyday readers, including titles on bathing, alcohol, and eyesight. His writing was practical and accessible, reflecting a period when popular health publishing mixed home advice, personal improvement, and bold medical claims.

Today, he is remembered less as a literary figure than as a colorful voice in the history of popular medicine. Some modern reference sources describe him as a promoter of ideas that are now regarded as outside mainstream medicine, which makes his books interesting both as period health writing and as part of the story of early twentieth-century alternative therapies.