Naomi D Rogers

An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital

When Hahnemann Medical College was founded in Philadelphia in 1848, it was the only institution in the world to offer an M. D. degree in homeopathy, a therapeutic and intellectual alternative to orthodox medicine. This institutional history situates Hahnemann in the broader context of American socia...

Polio Wars: Sister Kenny and the Golden Age of American Medicine

During World War II, polio epidemics in the United States were viewed as the country's "other war at home": they could be neither predicted nor contained, and paralyzed patients faced disability in a world unfriendly to the disabled. These realities were exacerbated by the medical community's enforc...

By Naomi Rogers Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR (Health & Medicine in American Society) [Paperback]

Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR (Health & Medicine in American Society)

"Will have an enthusiastic audience among historians of medicine who are familiar, for the most part, only with later twentieth-century efforts to combat polio." --Allan M. Brandt, University of North Carolina Dirt and Disease is a social, cultural, and medical history of the polio epidemic in the U...

WOMEN'S HEALTH: An entry from Charles Scribner's Sons' <i>Dictionary of American History</i>

This digital document is an article from Dictionary of American History, brought to you by Gale, a part of Cengage Learning, a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. The length of the article is 945 words. The article is delivered in HTML format ...

Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR

Dirt and Disease: Polio Before FDR

An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital

An Alternative Path: The Making and Remaking of Hahnemann Medical College and Hospital of Philadelphia