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The more general misunderstandings of Hahnemann’s teachings have been systematically set out by the authors in The Dynamic Legacy: from Homeopathy to Heilkunst. This work seeks to deal in more detail with one particular aspect, namely the... more
This essay will address some of the intersections between surrealism and the ecological view, looking at the latent Darwinian position of the surrealists' uncanny dissolution of the boundaries between the human and non-human natural... more
Frankenstein is a speculative narrative that asks, what would happen if man created human life without the biologically and relationally necessary woman and with indifference to God? What if Adam were to reject his own Creator and create... more
In this essay I examine the use of nitrous oxide, sulfuric ether, and chloroform in the antebellum United States. I argue that the transcendent possibilities of anesthetic intoxication fueled early interest in these drugs, and that... more
The purpose of this book is to provide the first systematic analysis of Hahnemann’s occasional writings leading up to the first edition of the Organon der Heilkunst (as set out in the book, The Lesser Writings). A proper knowledge and... more
Christoph Hufeland, one of the most prominent and celebrated physicians of the late 1700s and early 1800s in Germany and the Western medical world, even to this day, is presented as having been critical of the vitalist stream of medicine... more