The History of American Homeopathy : : From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care / / John S Haller.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Haller, John S,
• TeilnehmendeR: Flannery, Michael.
• Place / Publishing House: New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (208 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The Decline of Academic Homeopathy -- Chapter 2. Esoteric Homeopathy -- Chapter 3. The Laity Speaks Out -- Chapter 4. Postwar Trends -- Chapter 5. Roads Taken and Not Taken -- Chapter 6. Whither the Future? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index