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Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aging
ISBN : PURD:32754066766001
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Quacks and quackery
ISBN : STANFORD:36105020996281
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Deceptive advertising
ISBN : OCLC:10845944
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aging
ISBN : UCR:31210021614308
Author : James Harvey Young
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 520 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781400868698
James Harvey Young describes the development of patent medicines in America from the enactment in 1906 of the Pure Food and Drugs Act through the mid-1960s. Many predicted that the Pure Food and Drugs Act would be the end of harmful nostrums, but Young describes in colorful detail post-Act cases involving manufacturers and promoters of such products as Cuforhedake Brane-Fude, B. & M. "tuberculosis-curing" liniment, and the dangerous reducing pill Marmola. We meet, among others, the brothers Charles Frederick and Peter Kaadt, who treated diabetic patients with a mixture of vinegar and saltpeter; Louisiana state senator Dudley J. LeBlanc, who put on fabulous medicine shows as late as the 1950s promoting Hadacol and his own political career, and Adolphus Hohensee, whose lectures on nutrition provide a classic example of the continuing appeal of food faddism. 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., The American Historical Review "[This] material is so interestingly presented that the readers may not immediately appreciate what a major historic study [the book] is, and how carefully documented and critically analyzed."—Lester S. King, Journal of the American Medical Association "Dr. Young's well-written social history of health quackery in twentieth-century America will not only increase the understanding of our times by future historians but will also be of great value to all those interested in improving the health of the population by reminding them of the past."—F. M. Berger, The American Scientist Originally published in 1967. 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 : Eric W. Boyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780313385681
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. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Quacks and quackery
ISBN : UCR:31210021614316
Author : James Harvey Young
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400862917
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 : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN : UCBK:C020774313
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Older people
ISBN : MINN:31951D002684247
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Aged
ISBN : PURD:32754082301403
Nutrition-related topics include the national nutrition survey and the high costs of quackery.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging,Edward Ross Roybal
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Law
ISBN : PSU:000021071980
Author : United States. Public Health Service. Office of the Surgeon General
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 772 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Nutrition
ISBN : UCR:31210017435684
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : PURD:32754070366392
Author : Fred Rosner
Publisher : KTAV Publishing House, Inc.
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Bioethics
ISBN : 088125701X
"In addition, a number of the earlier chapters have been thoroughly revised in light of current developments. The book is an addition to the library of anyone who is concerned about the interaction between modern medicine and Jewish law in the twenty-first century."--BOOK JACKET.