Books written by John S. Haller
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A Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1845-1942
ܙ At the time of the survey , the trustees included Charles S. Amidon , M.D. , surgeon ; Charles W. Beaman , M.D. , pediatrician ; William P. Best , M.D. , general practitioner ; Charles R. Campbell , M.D. , county commissioner ...
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Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900
9 John Wesley Powell , “ From Barbarian to Civilization , ” American Anthropologist , o.s. , I ( Apr. , 1888 ) , 97 . . 10 W J McGee , speech , Aug. 26 , 1904 , Library of Congress , Mss , fol . 27 . 11 Roy Harvey Pearce , The Savages ...
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The People's Doctors: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 1790-1860
Additional support came from librarians Kathy Fahey , Mary K. Taylor , Barbara Preece , Roland Person , Kimbra Stout , Karen Drickamer , James W. Fox , Mary Anne Fox , and Carolyn Snyder of the Morris Library of Southern Illinois ...
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Kindly Medicine: Physio-medicalism in America, 1836-1911
Botanico - Medical Institute in Columbus , Dr. Lanier Bankston , known to many reformers as the " Curtis of the South , ” obtained a charter for the Southern Botanico - Medical College at Forsyth , Georgia .
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Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939
... of Christian conciliation” rather than continue their stance of persecution and intolerance of one another.15 Dr. Lanaier Bankston's Southern Botanico-Medical College (1839) at Forsyth, Georgia, led a particularly nomadic existence.
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Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840-1920
W. K. Clifford, “The Ethics of Belief,” in Walter Kaufman (ed.), Religion from Tolstoy to Camus ... John Henry Newman, Apologia pro Vita Sua (London: Longman, Green, Longman, Roberts and Green, 1864), 374. 13. Fraser Watts, “Are Science ...
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The History of American Homeopathy: From Rational Medicine to Holistic Health Care
The History of American Homeopathy 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 remains ...
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Shadow Medicine: The Placebo in Conventional and Alternative Therapies
A distinguished historian of medicine, John S. Haller Jr., explores the epistemological foundations of EBM and the challenges these conceptual tools present for both conventional and alternative therapies.
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Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars through World War I
Beginning with changes introduced by Dominique-Jean Larrey during the Napoleonic Wars, the book traces the organizational and technological challenges faced by opposing armies in the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the Franco-Prussian ...
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American Medicine in Transition, 1840-1910
After a lifetime of moving and assuming new identities, sixteen-year-old Chass begins to piece together the disturbing past that haunts her and her mother and which involves a mysterious tape, a deceased popular singer, and the secrets of ...
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The History of New Thought: From Mind Cure to Positive Thinking and the Prosperity Gospel
The History of New Thought demonstrates the broad and lasting impact that this movement has had on American culture.
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Joseph Rodes Buchanan: Architect of the Spirit-world, 1814-1899
Joseph Rodes Buchanan: Architect of the Spirit-world, 1814-1899
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Sectarian Reformers in American Medicine, 1800-1910
Reveals a century of ferment in American medicine, when the energies of many doctors focused on the prospect of reform and when much of their literature promised to revolutionize the world with the outcome of their efforts.
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Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become a Science
Modern Spiritualism: Its Quest to Become a Science
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Distant Voices: Sketches of a Swedenborgian World View
John S. Haller presents a series of essays on key figures in the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries connected by their fascination with the philosopher, scientist, and mystic Emanuel Swedenborg.
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Swedenborg, Mesmer, and the Mind/body Connection: The Roots of Complementary Medicine
Subject: A life of the mind -- Theological excursions -- In the mind's eye -- Perfectionism in our time -- Competing mediums -- From mental science to new thought -- Biomedicine's kindred spirits -- New age healing
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Buddha's Midwife: Paul Carus and the Open Court Publishing Company
Buddha's Midwife: Paul Carus and the Open Court Publishing Company
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Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness: Social Reform Thought from the Enlightenment to American Pragmatism
"Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness presents a possibly unsuspected historical undercurrent that further evidences Emanuel Swedenborg's pervasive influence on a whole host of historical figures-from poets and artists to philosophers and ...
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The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America
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.