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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud. [from old catalog]
ISBN : LOC:0018679106A
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Medicine
ISBN : MINN:31951D02106774H
Author : Eric W. Boyle
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9798216003595
This timely volume illustrates how and why the fight against quackery in modern America has largely failed, laying the blame on an unlikely confluence of scientific advances, regulatory reforms, changes in the medical profession, and the politics of consumption. Throughout the 20th century, anti-quackery crusaders investigated, exposed, and attempted to regulate allegedly fraudulent therapeutic approaches to health and healing under the banner of consumer protection and a commitment to medical science. Quack Medicine: A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America reveals how efforts to establish an exact border between quackery and legitimate therapeutic practices and medications have largely failed, and details the reasons for this failure. Digging beneath the surface, the book uncovers the history of allegedly fraudulent therapies including pain medications, obesity and asthma cures, gastrointestinal remedies, virility treatments, and panaceas for diseases such as arthritis, asthma, diabetes, and HIV/AIDS. It shows how efforts to combat alleged medical quackery have been connected to broader debates among medical professionals, scientists, legislators, businesses, and consumers, and it exposes the competing professional, economic, and political priorities that have encouraged the drawing of arbitrary, vaguely defined boundaries between good medicine and "quack medicine."
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : UCBK:C109104756
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : MINN:31951000101282T
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : MINN:31951D03548320M
Author : Chuck Whitlock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Fraud
ISBN : OCLC:1409372430
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : PURD:32754081237426
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : PURD:32754081237418
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : MINN:31951D03548321K
Author : James Harvey Young
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0691630305
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 wagon, but he knows how to use antiregulatory sentiment and ingenious promotional approaches to succeed in a "trade" that is both bizarre and deceitful. In The Toadstool Millionaires and The Medical Messiahs, Young traced the history of health quackery in America from its colonial roots to the late 1960s. This collection of essays discusses more recent health scams and reconsiders earlier ones. Liberally illustrated with examples of advertising for patent medicines and other "alternative therapies," the book links evolving quackery to changing currents in the scientific, cultural, and governmental environment. Young describes varieties of quackery, like frauds related to the teeth, nostrums aimed at children, and cure-all gadgets with such names as Electreat Mechanical Heart. The case of Laetrile illustrates how an alleged vitamin for controlling cancer could be ballyhooed and lobbied into a national mania, half the states passing laws giving the cyanide-containing drug some special status. And AIDS is the most recent example of an illness that, tragically, has panicked some of its victims and members of the general public into putting their hopes in fake cures and preventives. Young discusses the complex question of vulnerability--why people fall victim to health fraud--and considers the difficulties confronting governmental regulators. From the late 1960s to the early 1990s, the annual quackery toll has escalated from two billion to over twenty-five billion dollars. Young helps us discover why. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aging
ISBN : UCR:31210021614308
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : PURD:32754081237434
Author : Stephen Barrett
Publisher : Consumers Union U.S.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN : UOM:39015024795059
This revised and updated edition of Health quackery is a consumer's guide to identifying and avoiding health quackery in the form of phony doctors, fraudulent nutritionists, dishonest dentists, and crooked therapists. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Chuck Whitlock
Publisher : St. Martin's Griffin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781250100702
Where their health is concerned, Americans want answers. Too often, what they get are false promises from medical "professionals" more intent on lightening their patients' wallets than helping to shave off those stubborn five pounds. These medical scam artists run from the petty to the downright dangerous, and their schemes can leave you poorer but wiser, hospitalized, or much worse... Now journalist Chuck Whitlock tackles the seedy world of medical scams, exposing everything from bogus pills that claim to relieve symptoms of drunkenness, to questionable weight-loss programs, to bizarre plastic surgery procedures. Called "the nation's leading scambuster" by Oprah Winfrey, Chuck Whitlock tackles treacherous HMOs, doctors, and charlatans. Then he shows the reader how to avoid falling victim to medical scams.