The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care

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.

Author: John S. Haller
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780813545837

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 09/18/2009 pg. 17
Choice 03/01/2010
Scitech Book News 12/01/2009 pg. 118

About the Author

JOHN S. HALLER JR. is a professor emeritus of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, and the author of several books, among them The History of American Homeopathy: The Academic Years, 1820-1935.