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The medical messiahs : a social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America /

Review: ""The Medical Messiahs is an example of historical writing at its best-scholarly, perceptive, and exceedingly readable. Despite his objectivity, Young's dry humor shines through and illuminates his entire book.""--John Duffy, Journal of Southern History ""T...

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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.
Edición:Expanded paperback edition.
Colección:Princeton legacy library.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Preface ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Brane-Fude; 2. The Lawless Centuries; 3. A Decade of Enforcement; 4. Fraud in the Mails; 5. B. 6. ""Truth in Advertising""; 7. The New Muckrakers; 8. The New Deal and the New Laws; 9. In Pursuit of the Diminishing Promise; 10. Two Gentlemen from Indiana; 11. The Gadget Boom; 12. The Chemotherapeutic Revolution; 13. Mail-Order ""Health""; 14. Proprietary Advertising and the Wheeler-Lea Act; 15. Medicine Show Impresario; 16. ""You Are What You Eat""; 17. ""The Most Heartless""; 18. Anti-Quackery, Inc; 19. Turmoil on the Drug Scene 
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