Beschreibung:
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.
IntroductionChapter 1: The Decline of Academic HomeopathyChapter 2: Esoteric HomeopathyChapter 3: The Laity Speaks OutChapter 4: Postwar TrendsChapter 5: Roads Taken and Not TakenChapter 6: Whither the Future?NotesBibliographyIndex