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The History of
American Homeopathy
Price: $49.95
Subtitle: From Rational
Medicine to Holistic Health Care
Author:
John S. Haller Jr.
Foreword by Michael A. Flannery
Subject: Health
and Medicine
Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8135-4583-7
Pages:
208 pages
Publication Date: October 2009
Praise for The History of American Homeopathy
"A key achievement of this intriguing book is in capturing the shifting and diverse nature of homeopathy itself, which Haller depicts as having developed from an empirical science to a religious belief system. Haller encompasses the complexity of the development of homeopathy within a cogent narrative."
—Bulletin of the History of Medicine
"Once
again, Professor Haller offers an incisive analysis of a major
alternative medical system, providing an extraordinarily thorough and
nuanced examination of the evolution of homeopathic medicine over the
last one hundred years."
—James C. Whorton, author of Nature Cures: The History of Alternative
Medicine in America
"This is an important and
outstanding work of scholarship. Neither partisan nor apologetic, it
brings the strength of objectivity to homeopathy that has often been
lacking in its checkered historiography. Meticulously researched and
engagingly written, this book is destined to be the standard work on
this colorful and historically rich group of healthcare crusaders for
years to come."
—Michael A. Flannery, professor and associate director
for Historical Collections, University of Alabama at Birmingham
"Haller takes readers on a
historical journey involving American homeopathy as it traversed the
political, professional, scientific, and cultural landscape from the
late-19th century to the beginning of the 21st century. Experts and
novices to American homeopathy will find this book to be comprehensive,
objective, informative, and engaging. Recommended."
—Choice, March 2010
Description:
Although scorned in
the early 1900s and publicly condemned by Abraham Flexner
and the American Medical Association, the practice of homeopathy did
not disappear. Instead, it evolved with the emergence of holistic
healing and Eastern philosophy in the United States and today is a form
of alternative medicine practiced by more than 100,000 physicians
worldwide and used by millions of people to treat everyday ailments as
well as acute and chronic diseases.
The History
of American Homeopathy traces the rise of lay practitioners in
shaping homeopathy as a healing system and its relationship to other
forms of complementary and alternative medicine in an age when
conventional biomedicine remains the dominant form. Representing the
most current and up-to-date history of American homeopathy, readers
will benefit from John S. Haller Jr.’s comprehensive explanation of
complementary medicine within the American social, scientific,
religious, and philosophic traditions.
About the Author:
John S. Haller Jr. is a professor of history and
medical humanities at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and the
author of several books, among them The
History of American Homeopathy: The Academic Years, 1820–1935.
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