The History of American Homeopathy traces the rise of lay practitioners in shaping homeopathy as a healing system and its relationship to other forms of complementary and alternative medicine in an age when conventional biomedicine remains the dominant form. omplementary medicine within the American social, scientific, religious, and philosophic traditions.

Continues: The history of American homeopathy : the academic years, 1820-1935 / John S. Haller Jr. c2005.

The decline of academic homeopathy -- Esoteric homeopathy -- The laity speaks out -- Postwar trends -- Roads taken and not taken -- Whither the future?.