But where did it all start?
Alice Kuzniar, Professor of German and English at the University of 蓝莓视频, is currently working on her fifth book, The Romantic Art of Homeopathy. In this year's Jacob-and-Wilhelm Grimm Lecture, she鈥檒l review numerous ways in which homeopathy is a product of its time. Referencing German philosophers, poets, physicists, and physicians from around 1800, she鈥檒l look at the pervasive notion in Romantic science of a 鈥渧ital life force鈥 and how it informed homeopathy鈥檚 concepts of healing and the infinitesimal dose.
For example, did you know that
- most homeopathic single medications were devised by German physician Samuel Hahnemann around 1800?
- he tested them exclusively on himself for 13 years?
- Hahnemann rejected knowing what happened inside the body?
- the homeopathic pharmacopeia lists herbs according not to what illnesses they cure but to the symptoms they produce on a healthy person?
- he did not believe in naming a disease but claimed that illnesses were as diverse as clouds in the sky?
This talk is for anyone interested in mainstream or alternative medicine, general health, or European intellectual history. Come and learn about homeopathy鈥檚 creator and how the world he lived in affected its development.
Reception to follow.
Email wcgs@uwaterlo.ca or call (519) 888-4567 ext. 39267 for more information.
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