Vital Force : Women in American Homeopathy.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Homeopathy as "Other" -- Chapter 1: The New School of Medicine, 1820s to 1880s -- Chapter 2: Women Physicians, Lay Healers, and the Choice of Homeopathy -- Chapter 3: Becoming Physicians: Women's Homeopathic Medical Education, 1852-1900 -- Chapter 4: Adding Women to the Ranks: Nineteenth-Century Medical Societies and the Admission of Women -- Chapter 5: "Women's Diseases" and Homeopathic Patients, 1850-1900 -- Chapter 6: The Transformation of American Medicine and the Decline of Homeopathy, 1890-1920 -- Chapter 7: Struggle for Survival, 1920-1930 -- Epilogue: Twentieth-Century Transformation and Rebirth -- Appendix A: Women in Homeopathic Medical Societies -- Appendix B: Enumeration of Homeopathic and Regular Physicians, 1886, 1890-1893, and 1900 -- Notes -- Manuscript Sources -- Selected Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author.

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