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The Medical Messiahs : A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th 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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
1992.
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| Edición: | Expanded paperback edition. |
| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 100 | 1 | |a Young, James Harvey, |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The Medical Messiahs : |b A Social History of Health Quackery in 20th Century America / |c James Harvey Young. |
| 250 | |a Expanded paperback edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Princeton, New Jersey : |b Princeton University Press, |c 1992. | |
| 264 | 3 | |a Baltimore, Md. : |b Project MUSE, |c 2016 | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©1992. | |
| 300 | |a 1 online resource (522 pages): |b illustrations | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 490 | 0 | |a Princeton Legacy Library | |
| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 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 | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 20. The Perennial PronenessAfterword; A Note on the Sources; Index | |
| 520 | |a 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 ""This book is written in tight, graceful prose that reflects thought rather than substitutes for it. Done with a sure feel for the larger political, social, and economic background, it demonstrates that historians who would make socially relevant contributions need only adhere to the best canons of their art.""-Oscar E. Anderson, Jr., | ||
| 588 | |a Description based on print version record. | ||
| 650 | 7 | |a Quacks and quackery. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01084852 | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Internal Medicine. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Evidence-Based Medicine. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Diseases. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a MEDICAL |x Clinical Medicine. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HEALTH & FITNESS |x Diseases |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 7 | |a HEALTH & FITNESS |x General. |2 bisacsh | |
| 650 | 2 | |a Quackery |x history |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Quacks and quackery |z United States. | |
| 651 | 7 | |a United States. |2 fast |0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 | |
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| 945 | |a Project MUSE - Archive History Supplement IV | ||