Homeopathy and Women Over the course of the past several decades feminist scholars, in company with medical historians, have developed a sophisticated framework for identifying the ways in which Western medicine, as a system of social control, tends to reproduce and legitimate the construction of gender in the wider society. Wielded by physicians holding positions of power, the notion that "anatomy is destiny" can become a potent ideological weapon, labelling actions that violate "natural law" …
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…pictures. As a subset within his Lectures on Homoeopathic Materia Medica, these remedy pictures comprise a virtual album of the manifold sexual miseries that were endured in Victorian American. In some instances Kent's portraits have thankfully faded with the passage of years; but in others the features are still sharp. In spite of their sepia tones they can still affect us today, fresh as ever, like aromatic herbs pressed into the pages of the text.