Table of contents for A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy by Anne Taylor Kirschmann

Preface and Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Homeopathy as "Other"

The New School of Medicine, 1820s to 1880s

Women Physicians, Lay Healers, and the Choice of Homeopathy

Becoming Physicians: Women's Homeopathic Medical Education, 1852-1900

Adding Women to the Ranks: Nineteenth-Century Medical Societies and the Admission of Women

"Women's Diseases" and Homeopathic Patients, 1850-1900

The Transformation of American Medicine and the Decline of Homeopathy, 1890-1920

Struggle for Survival, 1920-1930

Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Transformation and Rebirth

Appendix A: Women in Homeopathic Medical Societies

Appendix B: Enumeration of Homeopathic and Regular Physicians, 1886, 1890-1893, and 1900

Notes

Manuscript Sources

Selected Bibliography

Index