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Author: Natalie Robins
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Free download Free Download Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine from with Mediafire Link Download LinkToday, one out of every three Americans uses some form of alternative medicine, either along with their conventional (“standard,” “traditional”) medications or in place of them. One of the most controversial–as well as one of the most popular–alternatives is homeopathy, a wholly Western invention brought to America from Germany in 1827, nearly forty years before the discovery that germs cause disease. Homeopathy is a therapy that uses minute doses of natural substances–minerals, such as mercury or phosphorus; various plants, mushrooms, or bark; and insect, shellfish, and other animal products, such as Oscillococcinum. These remedies mimic the symptoms of the sick person and are said to bring about relief by “entering” the body’s “vital force.” Many homeopaths believe that the greater the dilution, the greater the medical benefit, even though often not a single molecule of the original substance remains in the solution.
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Copeland’s Cure, Natalie Robins tells the fascinating story of homeopathy in this country; how it came to be accepted because of the gentleness of its approach–Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow were outspoken advocates, as were Louisa May Alcott, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Daniel Webster. We find out about the unusual war between alternative and conventional medicine that began in 1847, after the AMA banned homeopaths from membership even though their medical training was identical to that of doctors practicing traditional medicine. We learn how homeopaths were increasingly considered not to be “real” doctors, and how “real” doctors risked expulsion from the AMA if they even consulted with a homeopath.
At the center of
Copeland's Cure is Royal Samuel Copeland, the now-forgotten maverick senator from New York who served from 1923 to 1938. Copeland was a student of both conventional and homeopathic medicine, an eye surgeon who became president of the American Institute of Homeopathy, dean of the New York Homeopathic Medical College, and health commissioner of New York City from 1918 to 1923 (he instituted unique approaches to the deadly flu pandemic). We see how Copeland straddled the worlds of politics (he befriended Calvin Coolidge, Herbert Hoover, and Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, among others) and medicine (as senator, he helped get rid of medical “diploma mills”). His crowning achievement was to give homeopathy lasting legitimacy by including all its remedies in the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938.
Finally, the author brings the story of clashing medical beliefs into the present, and describes the role of homeopathy today and how some of its practitioners are now adhering to the strictest standards of scientific research–controlled, randomized, double-blind clinical studies.
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- Publisher: Knopf (July 22, 2009)
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- Language: English
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Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy and the War Between Conventional and Alternative Medicine
by Natalie Robins
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 330 pages, hardcover
ISBN 0-375410-90-2
Reviewed by Julian Winston
A BOOK ABOUT HOMEOPATHIC HISTORY? Usually I have some inkling that a work like this is coming. The homeopathic grapevine is most reliable, and when someone is writing about history, I usually catch wind of it. That this book appeared, full-blown, as a hardback, and with no review copy sent to the National Center for Homeopathy, was certainly a surprise. What could I do but obtain a copy, read it, and write a review?
The book is ostensibly about Royal S. Copeland, an 1889 MD graduate of the Homeopathic Department of the Univer?sity of Michigan. Copeland went on to gain a modicum of fame as an ophthalmic surgeon, taught at his Alma Mater, became mayor of Ann Arbor, and then moved to New York to become the Dean of the New York Homeopathic Medical College. President of the American Institute of Homeopathy (AIH) in 1908, Copeland eventually became Health Commissioner for the City of New York and, ultimately, a U.S. Senator. It is in the latter capacity that most present-day homeopaths know him: it was his influence that placed the Home?opathic Pharmacopoeia of the United States (HPUS) in the legislation that formed the Food and Drug Administration. And it is the HPUS that allows our homeopathic drugs legal status today.
Mover and shaker
The story of Dr. Copeland, a "mover and shaker" of his day, is fascinating. I was most impressed with the details of his struggle to pull the New York Homeo?pathic College from the doldrums and restore some of its previous glory.
We are greatly interested in our health, and are eager to spend huge sums of money on pills to improve it (though we are less eager, it seems, to change our habits of diet and exercise). If there was ever a need to fill, as in "Find a need and fill it," medical treatment holds enormous potential for enriching practitioners. This has always been true, and has been true before medicine was on a strong scientific basis, and is true for "alternative" treatments that have no scientific basis. These days, there is standard medical practice, the usual thing that graduates of medical schools are engaged in, and there are many alternatives: acupuncture, chiropractic, herbal remedies, naturopathy, aromatherapy, and many more. Alternative medicine, to the disgust of many doctors and skeptics, has gotten some official level of approval; there's the Office of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in the National Institutes of Health, and financial approval shown by coverage from many insurance companies. Among the most famous of such therapies is homeopathy, so it is timely to read _Copeland's Cure: Homeopathy and the War between Conventional and Alternative Medicine_ (Knopf) by Natalie Robins. It is mostly a biography of Royal Samuel Copeland, a homeopath, conventional doctor, eye surgeon, Health Commissioner of New York City, and U.S. Senator, but Copeland's constant efforts for his beloved homeopathy encompassed the practice's heyday. The controversies he battled are the same ones that alternative medicines are experiencing today, making Robins's detailed look at Copeland's life useful background for current clashes.
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