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About the Author John S. Haller, Jr., PhD, is Professor of History and Medical Humanities at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, teaching courses in American intellectual history and the history of medicine. He is author of Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859-1900; The Physician and Sexuality in Victorian America (coauthored with Robin Haller); American Medicine in Transition, 1830-1910; Farm Carts to Fords: A History of the Mili tary Ambulance, 1794-1925; Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939; Kindly Medicine: The History of Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911; The Making of a Medical Practice: An Illinois Case Study, 1885-1938 (coauthored with Barbara Mason); A Portrait in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1845-1942; and The People’s Doctors : Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement, 17901860 . He also served as past editor of Caduceus, A Journal for the Medical Humanities. He teaches courses in American thought and culture, leadership, and the history of medicine. Dr. Haller’s current research involves nineteenth and twentieth century alternative medical systems. ...

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