Author: Champe Seabury Andrews
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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A Century's Criminal Alliance Between Quacks and Some Newspapers
Author: Champe Seabury Andrews
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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Category : Advertising
Languages : en
Pages : 48
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International Record of Medicine
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
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New York Medical Journal
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America
Author: Arthur Wrobel
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813186757
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that turbulent age appeared to offer bright new answers to life's age-old questions. Such a climate, not surprisingly, fostered the growth of what we now view as "pseudo-sciences"—disciplines delicately balancing a dubious inductive methodology with moral and spiritual concerns, disseminated with a combination of aggressive entrepreneurship and sheer entertainment. Such "sciences" as mesmerism, spiritualism, homoeopathy, hydropathy, and phrenology were warmly received not only by the uninformed and credulous but also by the respectable and educated. Rationalistic, egalitarian, and utilitarian, they struck familiar and reassuring chords in American ears and gave credence to the message of reformers that health and happiness are accessible to all. As the contributors to this volume show, the diffusion and practice of these pseudo-sciences intertwined with all the major medical, cultural, religious, and philosophical revolutions in nineteenth-century America. Hydropathy and particularly homoeopathy, for example, enjoyed sufficient respectability for a time to challenge orthodox medicine. The claims of mesmerists and spiritualists appeared to offer hope for a new moral social order. Daring flights of pseudo-scientific thought even ventured into such areas as art and human sexuality. And all the pseudo-sciences resonated with the communitarian and women's rights movements. This important exploration of the major nineteenth-century pseudo-sciences provides fresh perspectives on the American society of that era and on the history of the orthodox sciences, a number of which grew out of the fertile soil plowed by the pseudo-scientists.
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813186757
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that turbulent age appeared to offer bright new answers to life's age-old questions. Such a climate, not surprisingly, fostered the growth of what we now view as "pseudo-sciences"—disciplines delicately balancing a dubious inductive methodology with moral and spiritual concerns, disseminated with a combination of aggressive entrepreneurship and sheer entertainment. Such "sciences" as mesmerism, spiritualism, homoeopathy, hydropathy, and phrenology were warmly received not only by the uninformed and credulous but also by the respectable and educated. Rationalistic, egalitarian, and utilitarian, they struck familiar and reassuring chords in American ears and gave credence to the message of reformers that health and happiness are accessible to all. As the contributors to this volume show, the diffusion and practice of these pseudo-sciences intertwined with all the major medical, cultural, religious, and philosophical revolutions in nineteenth-century America. Hydropathy and particularly homoeopathy, for example, enjoyed sufficient respectability for a time to challenge orthodox medicine. The claims of mesmerists and spiritualists appeared to offer hope for a new moral social order. Daring flights of pseudo-scientific thought even ventured into such areas as art and human sexuality. And all the pseudo-sciences resonated with the communitarian and women's rights movements. This important exploration of the major nineteenth-century pseudo-sciences provides fresh perspectives on the American society of that era and on the history of the orthodox sciences, a number of which grew out of the fertile soil plowed by the pseudo-scientists.
Archives of Dermatology and Syphilology
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Category : Dermatology
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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Category : Dermatology
Languages : en
Pages : 908
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International Record of Medicine and General Practice Clinics
Author: Edward Swift Dunster
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1322
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Saint Paul Medical Journal
Author: Burnside Foster
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 994
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Saint Paul Medical Journal
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 958
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The Journal of the New Mexico Medical Society
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Memorial Relating to the Conservation of Human Life as Contemplated by Bill (S. 1) Providing for a United States Public Health Service
Author: Irving Fisher
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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Category : Public health
Languages : en
Pages : 84
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