Divided Legacy: The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association : Science and Ethics in American Medicine 1800-1910 - Couverture souple

Coulter, Harris

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0913028967 ISBN 13 : 9780913028964

Editeur : North Atlantic Books,U.S., 1993

Synopsis

Book by Coulter Harris

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Divided Legacy ( Vols. I-IV) is a history of Western medical philosophy from the time of Hippocrates to the twentieth century, treating it as a unified system of thought rather than a series of fortuitous discovers. Dr. Coulter interprets the development of medical ideas as the product of a conflict between two opposed systems of thought, Empiricism and Rationalism.

This third volume of Divided Legacy continues the account of the conflict between the Empirical and the Rationalist approaches to therapeutics but introduces a socio-economic dimension which had earlier been lacking. In the early nineteenth century, Samuel Hahnemann’s formulation of the Empirical therapeutic doctrine, which he called homeopathy. It flourished especially in the United States. This volume traces the history of the rise and decline of this formulation of Empirical therapeutics in the nineteenth century United States. It analyzes the interaction between the homeopathic doctrines and those of the orthodox school and attempts to illustrate the influence of socio-economic constraints on the movement of medical thought during this period.

Revue de presse

"Coulter’s book gives those of us involved in holistic practice a sense of history, a broad and humanizing perspective on the politics and economics of contending medical philosophies in the marketplace....His tone is unsensational and earnest. His research is stunning."
— Norman Weinstein in East-West Journal

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: North Atlantic Books,U.S.
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0913028967
• ISBN 13: 9780913028964
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 578
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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