A vital force : women in American homeopathy / Anne Taylor Kirschmann.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kirschmann, Anne Taylor, 1944-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homeopathic physicians--United States--History.

Homeopathic physicians.

Homeopathy--United States--History.

Homeopathy.

Women physicians--United States--History.

Women physicians.

Women in medicine--United States--History.

Women in medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Homeopathy, as a medical system, presented a significant institutional and economic challenge to conventional medicine in the 19th century. In this study, Anne Taylor Kirschmann explores the strategic choice and consequences for women practitioners.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Homeopathy as 'Other'""; ""Chapter 1: The New School of Medicine, 1820's to 1880's""; ""Chapter 2: Women Physicians, Lay Healers, and the Choice of Homeopathy""; ""Chapter 3: Becoming Physicians: Women's Homeopathic Medical Education, 1852-1900""; ""Chapter 4: Adding Women to the Ranks: Nineteenth-Century Medical Societies and the Admission of Women""; ""Chapter 5: Women's Diseases' and Homeopathic Patients, 1850-1900""

""Chapter 6: The Transformation of American Medicine and the Decline of Homeopathy, 1890-1920""""Chapter 7: 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""; ""About the Author""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-221) and index.

ISBN:

0-8135-5488-8

0-8135-3544-1

OCLC:

54961370