The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land ed. by Craig Thompson Friend (review)

and phrases mean, and in the process l'Caders enter into the lives and faith of the men and women whom he interviews. At unc pi,int Remhherg asks Pastor L: irry, minister of the Hc)Lise c)! I' rayer where g. ing members worship, t{) labe] tile theology n divided and until the Il) 3os essays, for example, deal with subjects beyond Kentucky sect: tri: ins put up notable resistance in the AMA's libilitics. while others provitle something less 111: 111 : 1 new under- Yet, due lt) II: iller's exclusive fticus in debates between supstanding ,) f the t(, pic involved. Overall, h wever, this cci]- porters <, f p. irticular medic., 1 schi,4,] s, this sir ziggle seems to lection gives historians of the Kentucky frontier a place to take place in . 1 cultural and pi,litical vacuum. 11 .11] crargues begin, and it makes an important contribution to the histo- that cluring most of the nincteenth century Americans ric) graphy c ) t the regic)n. cherishecl their exceptionalisin in cc,mparisc,n with Eurc,pe and prriuilly maintained that the lack of regulation of medR . Douglas Hurt ical education spoke for their attachment to cgalitarian valli ,wil Stclte LJ/ ijversi'tr Lies ant| oppcisititin to clitism. ily the end of the century, however, Ainerjeans seem t<) h: ive abiandimed these ideals. Because d his n. irri)w Li}cus, II.i[[ cr f. iils tc) cxp[. 1311 this signific : int shift. At the same time, the AMA was pushing for John S. Hitler, Ir. A Pr(, file in Alternative Medicine· The universal standards, a new generation of progressive Eclectic Me,/ ic·, 1/ C.' cil/ exe tif Chic·ilitiati. / 81 f 1942 . Kent reftirmers kilihied fc}r different : Ipprci: iches ti) a variety cit old 1() h.1:The Kent St; itc University Press, 1999. 114 pp. IS]lN: problellis, tri)111 urban puverly li) crime. The recirictilation 0873386, 08 {clt,lhl, $ 35.00· of the nClliC. 11 pi-x,fessit11 w., s licticc p. irt £) 1' . 11.11·, Kcl· ciiltiiral mcivement tc, transfc,rm ] ing-held values and not just a Ioin S. 1·laller takes a clti,; c 1(K}k at Cincinnati's logical ciutc(, me of pic,gress within the field d medicine. Eclectic Medic: 11 Itistitute CEMII. liy il{) ing so, he 1,1 ( nily Haller lili,4111 heive succecilcilliettel· in explaining the v. ilue prtivides a Itical institutional hift<) ry but also illuminates shift of the American public if he h: d linked the conflicts ccinflicts accompanying the tiationwide Consolill: ilitin taking place within the incclic, 11 pri)fessic)n l{) ihc larger process of medicine as a science. Eclectic medicine deve]- context ( 31 PR, gressive relorm. oped as 011e (, 1 inany schools (, 1, 13(, sed t(, the medical m. 1111- A 1'!( ifile in Medicine contains plenty of inftirmation stream developing during the carly ninetcenth century. Its in eclectic medical philosviphy, the EMI's curricula and practitioners tihiected to the widespread application of purg policies, and student life. Undc,uhtedly an expert in regards ing,bleeding and induced vomiting, which had been central t() this understudied branch cit medical sectarians, Hiller tenets of earlier, allopathic medicine thri,ughout the eigh- tentls tc) accept claims made |, y the suppcirters d eclectic teenth into the early decades of the nineteenth century. medicine rather uncritically. For example, he explltins the I) rawing irtim a variety (, f-thevmes, cclectics sought t<) faCil- EMI's openness for women and minority students . is in-line it: itc the natural curative potential of the human organism with their egalit, irian phil<, s<, phy. But alth<) ugh the instithrough the administration cit iniligenous p]ant remeclics. tute, unlike most regular sclicicils,was continuciusly cipen to Their work proved to have considerable popular . ippe: 11. Jewish students, from [859 li) £ 874 it cli, sed its locirs to Fall ZooI Reviews 4I ...