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Contents

Foreword, John Woodward

Notes on Contributors

Introduction, Guenter B. Risse

Orthodoxy and Otherness: Homeopathy and Regular Medicine in Nineteenth-Century America, John Harley Warner

American Homeopathy Confronts Scientific Medicine, Naomi Rogers

The Paradox of Professionalisation: Homeopathy and Hydropathy as Unorthodoxy in Germany in the 19th and early 20th Century, Robert Jütte

Critics and Converts of Homeopathy: the Dutch Debate in the Nineteenth Century,
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

Homeopathy in Victorian Canada and its Twentieth-Century Resurgence: Professional, Cultural an Therapeutic Perspectives,
J.T.H. Connor

Homeopathy in the American West: its German Connections,
Joseph M. Schmidt

The Role of Medical Societies in the Professionalisation of Homeopathic Physicians in Germany and the USA, Martin Dinges

The Role of Laymen in the History of German Homeopathy, Dörte Staudt

Sectarian Identity and the Aim of Integration: Attitudes of American Homeopaths Towards Smallpox Vaccination in the Late Nineteenth Century, Eberhard Wolff

It Won't Do Any Harm: Practice and People at the London Homoeopathic Hospital, 1889-1923, Bernard Leary, Maria Lorentzon & Anna Bosanquet

Records on Homeopathic Physicians in American Archives: A Preliminary Directory,
Arnold Michalowski

Consolidated Bibliography

Index

Contents

Foreword, Jan Sundin

Notes on Contributors

Introduction, Robert Jütte

Alternative Medicine and Medico-Historical Semantics, Robert Jütte

Patients, Practitioners, Social Scientists and the Multiple Logics of Caring and Healing,
Claudine Herzlich

A Sense of Gender: Different Histories of Illness and Healing Alternatives, Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

The Contribution of the Comparative Approach to the History of Homeopathy, Martin Dinges

Danish Society and Folk Healers 1780-1825, Gerda Bonderup

Physicians, Quacks and the Field of Medicine: a Case Study of Quackery in Nineteenth-Century Sweden, Sofia Ling

Doctor or Quack: Legal and Lexical Definitions in Twentieth-Century Sweden, Motzi Eklöf

Health, Horror and Dreams for Sale: Patent Medicine and Quackery in Prewar Finland, Riitta Oittinen

Alternative Medicine, Irregular Healers, and the Medical Market in Nineteenth-Century Bavaria, Michael Stolberg

The Social Construction and Organisation of Medical Marginality: the Case of Homeopathy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Britain,
Phillip Nicholls

Homeopathy in Iceland,
Sigríður Svana Pétursdóttir

Figuratively Speaking of 'Danger of Death' in Chinese Pulse Diagnostics, Elisabeth Hsu

Chinese Medical Concepts in Biomedical Culture: the Case of Acupuncture in Norway, Gry Sagli

'The higher order of the natural laws and the wrong of world of hysterical mediums': Medicine and the Occult 'Fringe' at the Turn of the Nineteenth Century in Germany,
Barbara Wolf-Braun

Consolidated Bibliography

Index

Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction: Patients in the History of Homeopathy, Martin Dinges

'And [the money] accumulates, without annoyance on the part of the patient, in the doctor's purse': Samuel Hahnemann and the Question of Fees, Robert Jütte

Was Hahnemann Driven out of Leipzig? The Leipzig Practice and why Hahnemann Moved to Köthen in 1821: Patient Numbers and Polemics, Kathrin Schreiber

The Experience of Illness and the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Samuel Hahnemann's Patient Correspondence, Michael Stolberg

Men's Bodies 'Explained' on a Daily Basis in Letters from Patients to Samual Hahnemann (1830-35), Martin Dinges

Children as Patients in Early Homeopathy, Iris Ritzmann

Class, Status and Gender: Toward a Sociology of the Homoeopathic Patient in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Phillip A. Nicholls

Patients of Russian Pre-World War I Homoeopathy, Alexander Kotok

'Patients don't care from where the cure comes': Patients' Choice of a Homoeopathic Folk Healer in Iceland, Sigríður Svana Pétursdóttir

Sören Jensen: a Danish Homoeopath, his Time and his Patients (1874-84),
Anna-Elisabeth Brade

Léon Vannier's Patients in the 1930s, Olivier Faure

The Haverhoeks and their Patients: the Popularity of Unqualified Homoeopaths in the Netherlands in the Early Twentieth Century,
Marijke Gijswijt-Hofstra

Homoeopathy in Nineteenth-Century Flanders: the Patients of the Ghent Homoeopath Gustave van den Berghe (1869-902),
Anne Hilde van Baal

Co-operation and Tensions between Homoeopathic Lay Societies and Homoeopathic Doctors: the Homoeopathic Lay Movement in Württemberg during the Professionalisation of the Medical Profession, 1868-1921, Osamu Hattori

The Homoeopathic Patient in General Practice: Findings of a Comparative Poll of Patients in Conventional Medical Practices and Homeopathic Private and Health Insurance Scheme Practices, Martina Günther and
Hans Römermann

Homoeopathy from the Patient's Standpoint: an Empirical Study in the City of Curitiba (Brazil), 1998-99, Lore Fortes and
Ipojucan Calixto Fraiz

Patients and Homoeopathy: an Overview of Sociological Literature, Gunnar Stollberg

The Influence of Patients in the Provision of Homoeopathy in Great Britain: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Bernard Leary

The Public Face of Homoeopathy: Politics, the Public and Alternative Medicine in the United States, 1900-40, Naomi Rogers

Struggle for Survival: the American Foundation for Homeopathy and the Preservation of Homoeopathy in the United States, 1920-30,
Anne Taylor Kirschmann

Consolidated Bibliography

Index of Names

Index of Places