The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism / / Alice Kuzniar.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Kuzniar, Alice,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2018]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Figures --; Acknowledgments --; Introduction HOMEOPATHY: A CHILD OF ITS TIME --; 1. The Law of Similars --; 2. The Law of the Single Remedy --; 3. The law of minimum --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781487512637; 9783110665949
• DOI: 10.3138/9781487512637
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alice Kuzniar.

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms. Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that Hahnemann was a product of his time rather than an iconoclast and visionary. It is the first book in English to examine Hahnemann’s unpublished writings, including case journals and self-testings, and links to his contemporaries such as Goethe and Alexander von Humboldt. Kuzniar’s engaging writing style seamlessly weaves together medical, philosophical, semiotic, and literary concerns and reveals homeopathy as a phenomenon of its time. The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism sheds light on issues that continue to dominate the controversy surrounding homeopathy to this very day.