The Flexner Report: How Homeopathy Became “Alternative Medicine”

The Flexner Report of 1910 permanently changed American medicine during the early 20th century. Commissioned with the Carnegie Foundation, this report triggered the elevation of allopathic medicine to being the standard way of medical education and practice in the usa, while putting homeopathy inside the realm of what exactly is now generally known as “alternative medicine.” Although Abraham Flexner himself was an educator, not really a physician, he was chosen to evaluate Canadian and American…

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