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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815583503321

Autore

Kirschmann Anne Taylor <1944->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-8135-5488-8

0-8135-3544-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (247 p.)

Disciplina

615.5/32/082

Soggetti

Homeopathic physicians - United States - History

Homeopathy - United States - History

Women physicians - United States - History

Women in medicine - United States - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

""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""