Divided Legacy, Volume IV: A History of the Schism in Medical Thought [Hardcover]

Harris Coulter (Author)

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Hardcover: 808 pages
Publisher: North Atlantic Books; 1 edition (Oct 6 1994)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1556431708
ISBN-13: 978-1556431708
Product Dimensions: 14.2 x 5.8 x 21.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.3 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,588,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Coulter’s book gives those of us involved in holistic practice a sense of history, a broad and humanizing perspective on the politics and economics of contending medical philosophies in the marketplace….His tone is unsensational and earnest. His research is stunning."
— Norman Weinstein in East-West Journal

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Divided Legacy (Vols. I-IV) is a history of Western medical philosophy from the time of Hippocrates to the twentieth century, treating it as a unified system of thought rather than a series of fortuitous discovers. Dr. Coulter interprets the development of medical ideas as the product of a conflict between two opposed systems of thought, Empiricism and Rationalism.

This fourth and final volume of Divided Legacy continues the analysis of the spectacular theoretical clashes between Empiricism and Rationalism which have dominated the history of medicine since ancient times. Bringing to bear richly referenced English, French, German and American source material, including many neglected homeopathic and allopathic works from the nineteenth century onward, Coulter sets forth the varying attitudes of major thinkers to the germ theory of disease. He describes the originality of Pasteur, shows the conflicting Empirical and Rationalist views of immunization, sets forth Paul Ehrlich’s views on pharmacology, and gives detail on the major debates about infectious disease which are the foundation not only of allopathy but also of homeopathy, osteopathy, naturopathy, and chiropractic.

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