Divided Legacy, Volume III
Subtitle: The Conflict Between Homeopathy and the American Medical Association
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Published: April 21, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 580
ISBN-13: 9780938190578
Subjects: USA; Medicine: General Issues; History; Homeopathy; Medical / History; Consumer Health
First sentence: In the 1820's and 1830's the corporate body of American physicians-a well-established professional class with a virtual monopoly over the legal practice of medicine-lost its privileged position and political power to a series of competing and hostile groups of practitioners.