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John S. Haller

Author of The physician and sexuality in Victorian America

16+ Works 177 Members 1 Review

About the Author

John S. Haller Jr., emeritus professor of history and medical humanities at Southern Illinois University Carbondale, has written more than a dozen books on subjects ranging from race to sexuality, and the history of medicine. He is the former editor of Caduceus: A Humanities Journal for Medicine show more and the Health Sciences. show less

Includes the names: John S. Haller, John S. Jr. Haller, John S. Haller Jr., John S. Haller Jr., Professor John S. Haller Jr. B.A. M.A. Ph.D.

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Works by John S. Haller

The physician and sexuality in Victorian America (1974) 49 copies

Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900 (1971) 34 copies

The History of New Thought: From Mind Cure to Positive Thinking and the Prosperity Gospel (Swedenborg Studies) (2012) 17 copies

The history of American homeopathy : the academic years, 1820-1935 (2005) 14 copies

Kindly Medicine: Physio-Medicalism in America, 1836-1911 (1997) 12 copies

SWEDENBORG, MESMER, AND THE MIND/BODY CONNECTION: THE ROOTS OF COMPLEMENTARY MEDICINE (Swedenborg Studies) (2010) 10 copies

American Medicine in Transition, 1840-1910 (1981) 7 copies

Farmcarts to Fords : a history of the military ambulance, 1790-1925 (1992) 7 copies

Medical Protestants: The Eclectics in American Medicine, 1825-1939 (Studies in Writing & Rhetoric) (1994) 7 copies

A Profile in Alternative Medicine: The Eclectic Medical College of Cincinnati, 1845-1942 (1999) 6 copies

Battlefield Medicine: A History of the Military Ambulance from the Napoleonic Wars Through World War I (2011) 5 copies

The People's Doctor: Samuel Thomson and the American Botanical Movement 1790-1860 (2000) 3 copies

Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the Search for Meaning, 1840–1920 (2020) 2 copies, 1 review

The Buddha's Midwife: Paul Carus and the Spread of Buddhism in America (2023) 2 copies

Samuel Thomson and the Poetry of Botanic Medicine, 1810-1860 1 copy

Swedenborg's Principles of Usefulness: Social Reform Thought from the Enlightenment to American Pragmatism… (2020) 1 copy

Associated Works

On The Wings of The Storm (2023) — Editor — 2 copies

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Common Knowledge

Legal name: Haller, John S., Jr.
Birthdate: 20th Century
Gender: male
Education: University of Maryland (PhD |1968)
John Carroll University (MA | 1964)
Georgetown University (BA | 1962)
Occupations: Professor of History, Southern Illinois U. at Carbondale, Illinois, USA
Professor of Medical Humanities, Southern Illinois U. School of Medicine, Springfield, Illinois, USA

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Fictions of Certitude: Science, Faith, and the… by John S. Haller Jr.

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Anisfield-Wolf Book Award

Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900 (Nonfiction – 1972)

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Works: 16
Also by: 1
Members: 177
Popularity: #121,427
Rating: 3.8

Reviews: 1
ISBNs: 38

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