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A Vital Force: Women in American Homeopathy. By Anne Taylor Kirschmann. (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2004. xvi, 230 pp. Cloth, $62.00, ISBN 0-8135-3319-8. Paper, $23.95, ISBN 0-8135-3320-1.)
Women for long have played the role of healer in complementary and alternative medical systems, particularly in religious and folk medical systems, but also in professionalized medical systems, such as osteopathy, chiropractic, and, recently, naturopathy. In A Vital Force, Anne Taylor Kirschmann demonstrates that this also has been true for American homeopathy, both in the past and in more recent times. . . .
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