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John S. Haller
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…
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Investigates the fin de siecle search for truth and meaning in a world that had been radically transformed. John S. Haller Jr. examines the moral and philosophical journeys of nine…
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Explores the relationship between scientific conviction and public policy. John S. Haller focuses on the numerous liberally educated American scientists who were caught up in the triumph of evolutionary ideas…
Prev. ed.: Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, c1992, under title Farmcarts to Fords: a history of the military ambulance, 1790-1925.
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…
Patrician looking but not patrician born, Musmanno was a self-made man memorable in his appearance and congenial to the times until his intentions and aspirations ran afoul of the circumstances…
Between the Parliament of Religions which met in Chicago in 1893 at the time of the Columbian Exposition, and World War I, Asian religions and philosophies made a significant impact…
Can Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) and Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) find common ground? A distinguished historian of medicine, John S. Haller Jr., explores the epistemological foundations of EBM and…
Complementary and alternative healing concepts encompass a wide range of practices that share a common ground: the belief that our physical well-being is inextricably linked to an seen world beyond…
John S Haller
Swedenborg’s Principles of Usefulness highlights Emanuel Swedenborg’s (1688-1772) widespread influence on an impressive host of historical figures–from poets and artists to philosophers and statesmen–and reform movements whose contributions to the…
John S. Haller,Robin M. Haller
A highly readable, thoughtful, and detailed study …. No one has yet set the story of Victorian sexuality so firmly in the context of medical history. -Journal of American History
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JOHN S. HALLER
Highlights Swedenborg's presence in the work of 12 charismatic thinkers who have revealed the congruencies between Eastern religions and the prevailing Christian ideology of the West, from Emerson, Henry James…
John S Haller, Jr, Dr
The second volume on the history of alternative medicine in America. It provides the current history on the subject, from the ascendance of the laity within American homeopathy following the…
John Brinton
John Hill Brinton (1832-1907) met, observed, and commented on practically the entire hierarchy of the Union army. John Y. Simon finds Brinton’s memoirs remarkable for accuracy and frankness. His portrait…
Silas Thompson Trowbridge
A remarkable account of nineteenth-century medicine, politics, and personal life that recovers the captivating experiences of a Civil War-era regimental surgeon who was also a president of the Illinois State…
Haller Jr, John S
A history of this high-brow school of medicine, Physio-Medicalism. They promoted the belief that the body has a vital force that can be used to heal and substituted botanical medicines…
The Eclectic Medical Institute, was an American institution in origin, concept, and practice. A Profile of Alternative Medicine recounts the history of eclectic medicine which, along with hydropathy, homeopathy, physiomedicalism…
