Recepcja homeopatii w polskiej myśli medycznej XIX stulecia

• Autorzy: Płonka-Syroka B.

Warianty tytułu

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Reception of homeopathy in Poland’s medical milieu in the 19th century

• Języki publikacji: PL

Abstrakty

PL

Problem dziewiętnastowiecznej recepcji doktryny S.F. Hahnemanna w polskiej myśli medycznej XIX wieku i uwarunkowań tego procesu nie był dotąd w polskiej historiografii medycyny szerzej podejmowany. Opublikowałam wcześniej na ten temat kilka opracowań, a także poświęciłam mu nieco uwagi w obszernym studium dotyczącym recepcji elementów niemieckiej myśli medycznej w polskiej społeczności lekarskiej. Chciałabym w niniejszym studium przedstawić przebieg i uwarunkowania recepcji homeopatii w świadomości polskiego środowiska lekarskiego.

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The problem of the spread of homeopathy in the Polish medical milieu of the 19th century, as well as an analysis of the circumstances in which the process took place, has not yet received extensive treatment in Polish historiography of medicine. Apart from the earlier publications by B. Płonka-Syroka (1990, 1997, 1998) it has not been investigated by Polish historians of science either. The current study tries to fill that gap, by concentrating on the two major aspects relating to the background for the reception of S.F. Hahnemann's doctrine in Poland. The study presents the structure of homeopathy as a medical doctrine, that is both its theoretical foundation and the methods of treatment that Hahnemann considered rational and effective. It also discusses the social circumstances that favoured the spread of homeopathy among patients, and which contributed to its main tenets being accepted by some physicians. The study describes the critical attitudes towards Hahnemanns's theory and praxis held by representatives of Polish clinical medicine in the first half of the 19th century (such as J.M. Brodowicz, L. Bierkowski, J. Ditel, F. Hechel, J. Frank, F. Rymkiewicz, A.F. Adamowicz, A.F. Wolff, J.B. Freyer and others) and looks for the sources of such attitudes. The study also presents the reception of homeopathy in Polish medical writing and in popular writings on health, up to the end of the 19th century. Both in the first and in the second half of the 19th century most representatives of the Polish medical milieu believed Hahnemann's doctrine to be a conception devoid of any rational basis and one that was impossible to verify empirically. Polish medical writing refused to interpret those cases in which a patient was cured after being administered homeoptahic drugs - believed by the proponents of homeopathy to be sufficient evidence for the rationality and effectiveness of the doctrine - as providing testimony of the doctrine's scientific plausibility. Instead, such cases were interpreted in other ways, complying with the standards adopted in Polish clinical medicine of those times.

Słowa kluczowe

PL

homeopatia; medycyna; doktryna Hahnemanna

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homeopathy; medicine; Hahnemann's doctrine

• Wydawca: Instytut Historii Nauki im. L. i A. Birkenmajerów Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Czasopismo: Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
• Rocznik: 2001
• Tom: R. 46, nr 1
• Strony: 7--28
• Opis fizyczny: Bibliogr. 68 poz.

Twórcy

autor

Płonka-Syroka B.

• Wrocław