A Profile in Alternative Medicine

A Profile in Alternative Medicine
Author: John S. Haller
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1999
Genre: Eclecticism
ISBN: 9780873386104

A history of the Eclectic Medical Institute (EMI), and an account of the history of eclectic medicine, which competed with regular medicine in the 19th century. It recounts the feuds, successes, adversity and ultimate failure of this bastion of freedom in medical thought.