The Birth of Homeopathy Out of the Spirit of Romanticism

by Alice A. Kuzniar

Book Overview

Homeopathy was founded in 1796 by the German physician Samuel Hahnemann who ardently proposed that "like cures like," counter to the conventional treatment of prescribing drugs that have the opposite effect to symptoms.

Alice A. Kuzniar critically examines the alternative medical practice of homeopathy within the Romantic culture in which it arose. In The Birth of Homeopathy out of the Spirit of Romanticism, Kuzniar argues that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 148750117X
• ISBN13: 9781487501174
• Release Date: April 2017
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"