Author: Morris Fishbein
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Category : Alternative medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 232

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Author: Annie Riley Hale
Publisher:
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Category : Alternative medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 268

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"'These Cults' is an emphatic protest against State Medicine and if it shall serve no other purpose than to arouse in its readers the average person's love of fair play, it will not have been written in vain. The Author"--P. viii.

Author: John S. Haller
Publisher: SIU Press
ISBN: 0809381060
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 365

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John S. Haller,Jr., provides the first modern history of the Eclectic school of American sectarian medicine. The Eclectic school (sometimes called the "American School") flourished in the mid-nineteenth century when the art and science of medicine was undergoing a profound crisis of faith. At the heart of the crisis was a disillusionment with the traditional therapeutics of the day and an intense questioning of the principles and philosophy upon which medicine had been built. Many American physicians and their patients felt that medicine had lost the ability to cure. The Eclectics surmounted the crisis by forging a therapeutics based on herbal remedies and an empirical approach to disease, a system independent of the influence of European practices. Although rejected by the Regulars (adherents of mainstream medicine), the Eclectics imitated their magisterial manner, establishing two dozen colleges and more than sixty-five journals to proclaim the wisdom of their theory. Central to the story of Eclecticism is that of the Eclectic Medical Institute of Cincinnati, the "mother institute" of reform medical colleges. Organized in 1845, the school was to exist for ninety-four years before closing in 1939. Throughout much of their history, the Eclectic medical schools provided an avenue into the medical profession for men and women who lacked the financial and educational opportunities the Regular schools required, siding with Professor Martyn Paine of the Medical Department of New York University, who, in 1846, had accused the newly formed American Medical Association of playing aristocratic politics behind a masquerade of curriculum reform. Eventually, though, they grudgingly followed the lead of the Regulars by changing their curriculum and tightening admission standards. By the late nineteenth century, the Eclectics found themselves in the backwaters of modern medicine. Unable to break away from their botanic bias and ill-equipped to support the implications of germ theory, the financial costs of salaried faculty and staff, and the research implications of laboratory science, the Eclectics were pushed aside by the rush of modern academic medicine.

Author: Robert D. Johnston
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135953910
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 389

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First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Chicago Public Library
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 650

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Author: Morris Fishbein
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 223

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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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Author: Eric W. Boyle
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313385688
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 265

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This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption. Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure. Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."

Author: University of North Carolina (1793-1962). University Extension Division
Publisher:
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Category : Freight and freightage
Languages : en
Pages : 836

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Category : Medicine, Eclectic
Languages : en
Pages : 652

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