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Author Kirschmann, Anne Taylor, 1944-

Title A vital force : women in American homeopathy / Anne Taylor Kirschmann
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 230 pages)
Contents ""Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Introduction: Homeopathy as “Other�""; ""Chapter 1: The New School of Medicine, 1820s to 1880s""; ""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""
Analysis Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-221) and index
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Subject Homeopathic physicians -- United States -- History
Homeopathy -- United States -- History
Women physicians -- United States -- History
Women in medicine -- United States -- History
Homeopathy -- history
History, 19th Century
History, 20th Century
Physicians, Women -- history
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Homeopathy.
Homeopathic physicians
Homeopathy
Women in medicine
Women physicians
SUBJECT United States
Subject United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 0813535441
9780813535449
9780813533193
0813533198
9780813533209
0813533201