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Subject(s)

• Medicine, Eclectic—History [Browse]
• Medical colleges—Ohio—Cincinnati—History—19th century [Browse]
• Medical colleges—Ohio—Cincinnati—History—20th century [Browse]
• Medicine, Eclectic [Browse]
• Eclectic Medical College—History [Browse]

Summary note

"EMI was known as the "mecca of eclectic thinking" and the "Mother Institute" of reformed medicine. Alternative Medicine recounts the history of eclectic medicine which, along with hydropathy, homeopathy, physio-medicalism, chiropractic, and osteopathy, competed with allopathy, or regular medicine, in the nineteenth century." "Unlike most alternative medical colleges that closed without leaving documentation, EMI left complete student records, faculty files, deans papers, financial records, and minutes of the board of trustees. These records provide an important window into sectarian medicine's many challenges, into the tensions between the school and its board of trustees, and between the school and the American Medical Association as EMI unsuccessfully struggled with the AMA's Council on Medical Education to obtain a class-A rating."--BOOK JACKET.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-205) and index.

Contents

• 1. Cincinnati's Medical Establishment
• 2. All the Dean's Men
• 3. Academics
• 4. Student Life
• 5. Presiding over Change
• 6. Denouement
• Appendix. Women Graduates of the Eclectic Medical College, 1853-1939.

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Other title(s)

Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1845-1942

ISBN

• 0873386108 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))
• 9780873386104 ((cloth ; : alk. paper))

LCCN

98043302

OCLC

39811648

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