American health quackery : collected essays /

James Harvey Young, the foremost expert on the history of medical frauds, finds quackery in the 1990s to be more extensive and insidious than in earlier and allegedly more naive eras. The modern quack isn't an outrageous-looking hawker of magic remedies operating from the back of a carnival wag...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Young, James Harvey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [1992]
Temas:
Quacks and quackery > United States.
HISTORY > United States > 20th Century.
MEDICAL > Pharmacology.
Quacks and quackery.
United States.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • PART I: Telling Why
  • PROLOGUE: A Quota of Quotations on Quackery
  • Chapter 1. Getting into Quackery
  • PART II: Seeking Patterns
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 2. Quackery and the American Mind
  • Chapter 3. "The Foolmaster Who Fooled Them"
  • Chapter 4. Folk into Fake
  • PART III: Giving Counsel
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 5. Health Quackery: A Historian's Advice
  • Chapter 6. The Regulation of Health Quackery
  • PART IV: Considenng Themes
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 7. The Long Struggle against Quackery in Dentistry
  • Chapter 8. "Even to a Sucking Infant": Nostrums and Children
  • Chapter 9. The Marketing of Patent Medicines in Lincoln's Springfield
  • Chapter 10. Nutritional Eccentricities
  • PART V: Narrating Cases
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 11. "Euclid + Lincoln = Kent"
  • Chapter 12. When Folk Medicine Flourished in the Shadows of Grady Hospital
  • Chapter 13. Laetrile in Historical Perspective
  • Chapter 14. AIDS and Deceptive Therapies
  • Index

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