Author: Publisher:
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Category : Hydrotherapy
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Hygienic Teacher and Water-cure Journal
Author: Wash and Be Healed
Author: Susan CayleffPublisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1439904278
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 261
Book Description
An exploration of the relationship between hydrotherapy and the women who took the cure.
The American Phrenological Journal and Life Illustrated
Author: Hygiene
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Hall's Journal of Health
Author: The Horticulturist and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste
Author: The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America
Author: John Ward DeanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Pseudo-Science and Society in 19th-Century America
Author: Arthur WrobelPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813186757
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Progressive nineteenth-century Americans believed firmly that human perfection could be achieved with the aid of modern science. To many, the science of that turbulent age appeared to offer bright new answers to life's age-old questions. Such a climate, not surprisingly, fostered the growth of what we now view as "pseudo-sciences"—disciplines delicately balancing a dubious inductive methodology with moral and spiritual concerns, disseminated with a combination of aggressive entrepreneurship and sheer entertainment. Such "sciences" as mesmerism, spiritualism, homoeopathy, hydropathy, and phrenology were warmly received not only by the uninformed and credulous but also by the respectable and educated. Rationalistic, egalitarian, and utilitarian, they struck familiar and reassuring chords in American ears and gave credence to the message of reformers that health and happiness are accessible to all. As the contributors to this volume show, the diffusion and practice of these pseudo-sciences intertwined with all the major medical, cultural, religious, and philosophical revolutions in nineteenth-century America. Hydropathy and particularly homoeopathy, for example, enjoyed sufficient respectability for a time to challenge orthodox medicine. The claims of mesmerists and spiritualists appeared to offer hope for a new moral social order. Daring flights of pseudo-scientific thought even ventured into such areas as art and human sexuality. And all the pseudo-sciences resonated with the communitarian and women's rights movements. This important exploration of the major nineteenth-century pseudo-sciences provides fresh perspectives on the American society of that era and on the history of the orthodox sciences, a number of which grew out of the fertile soil plowed by the pseudo-scientists.
The Knickerbocker
Author: Charles Fenno HoffmanPublisher:
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 628
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