Оригинальная статья. Опубликована: "Culture, Knowledge, and Healing. Historical Perspectives of Homoeopathic Medicine in Europe and North America". — EAHMP, Sheffield, 1998. — pp. 217–250, English. (OCR-слой).
[Это оригинал статьи: Д-р Эберхард Вольф (Швейцария). Групповая идентичность и цель интеграции: отношение американских гомеопатов к вакцинации против натуральной оспы в конце XIX в. Перевод с англ. Зои Дымент (Минск)].In the historiography of medicine, sectarian medical movements have been analysed mostly from the perspective of a conflict with regular medicine. Homeopathy, in particular, has been regarded as a distinct medical world with a way of therapeutic thinking apart from orthodox medicine and of not being compatible with it. On the level of theory, this is largely correct as, especially, the efficiency of minimal doses cannot be accepted by regulars, and 'regular' doses cannot be accepted by homeopaths who take seriously the homeopathic principles. Thus, from this point of view, an integration of homeopathy with allopathy is, to some extent, a contradiction in terms. However, recently this perspective has been replaced partially by focusing on those issues which regular and sectarian physicians had in common.
In fact, these boundaries between the factions were never so clear . cut for on the level of homeopathy's everyday practice (or practical principles); transgression was normal. Nevertheless, these transgressions raise the 218 Culture, Knowledge, and Healing question of how thoroughly homeopaths kept to the concept to which they were devoted. An exploration and analysis of these transgressions can throw light on how homeopathic physicians perceived their identity as a group.
This paper traces the identity of American homeopathic physicians in the late nineteenth century, but offers a different approach to that of Naomi Rogers by focusing on a single issue. The homeopathic, sectarian or distinctive identity of homeopathic physicians between sectarian segregation on the one hand and eclectic integration on the other is studied only as it is reflected in their judgement of smallpox vaccination.Introduction.
Homeopathy and Vaccination: A Perpetual Debate.
The Pros and Cons of Vaccination.
The Double-Faced Interpretation of Vaccination among Homeopaths.
Tracing Anti-Vaccinationism among American Homeopaths (I): Books and Journals.
Tracing Anti-Vaccinationism among American Homeopaths (II): Homeopathic Domestic Medical Guides.
Specific Arguments on Vaccination Reflecting General Attitudes of American Homeopaths.
The Fear of 'Odium on the Homeopathic Profession'.
Influence on Homeopathy from the Outside Medical World.
Judging Side-Effects of Vaccination the Homeopathic Way.
Conclusion: A Homeopathic Identity?
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