A Vital Force

Women in American Homeopathy

By: Anne Taylor Kirschmann

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Paperback | 31 December 2003

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Homeopathy, as a medical system, presented a significant institutional and economic challenge to conventional medicine in the nineteenth century. Although contemporary critics portrayed homeopathic physicians as part of a sect whose treatment of disease was beyond the pale of acceptable medical practice, homeopathy was in many ways similar to established medicine. Anne Taylor Kirschmann explores the strategic choices and consequences for women practitioners. Not only were female homeopaths respected within their communities, they also enjoyed considerable professional advantages not available to women within regular medicine. A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy offers a new interpretation of women's roles in modern medicine. Kirschmann strengthens and clarifies the history of homeopathic women physicians and creates a framework of comparison to "regular, " or orthodox, physicians. Women medical practitioners chose homeopathy in dramatic numbers from the mid-nineteenth through the early twentieth centuries, although the reasons for this preference varied over time. Linked to social reform movements in the nineteenth century, anti-modernism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth, and countercultural ideals of the 1960s and 1970s, women's advocacy of homeopathy has been intertwined with broad social and cultural issues in American society.

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"A Vital Force is clearly a work of exemplary scholarship that will add measurably to the existing literature on homeopathy; it will serve scholars and students well in explaining the role of women in American homeopathy."

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Non-Fiction Medicine Medicine in General History of Medicine Mind, Body, Spirit Complementary Therapies, Healing & Health Homoeopathy Society & Culture Social Groups Gender Studies Gender Studies: Women and Girls Complementary Medicine

Preface and Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Homeopathy as "Other"	p. 1
The New School of Medicine, 1820s to 1880s	p. 7
Women Physicians, Lay Healers, and the Choice of Homeopathy	p. 29
Becoming Physicians: Women's Homeopathic Medical Education, 1852-1900	p. 55
Adding Women to the Ranks: Nineteenth-Century Medical Societies and the Admission of Women	p. 74
"Women's Diseases" and Homeopathic Patients, 1850-1900	p. 90
The Transformation of American Medicine and the Decline of Homeopathy, 1890-1920	p. 113
Struggle for Survival, 1920-1930	p. 132
Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Transformation and Rebirth	p. 159
Women in Homeopathic Medical Societies	p. 169
Enumeration of Homeopathic and Regular Physicians, 1886, 1890-1893, and 1900	p. 175
Notes	p. 177
Manuscript Sources	p. 213
Selected Bibliography	p. 215
Index	p. 223
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