Quackery

Author : Lydia Kang,Nate Pedersen
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781523501854

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Quackery by Lydia Kang,Nate Pedersen Pdf

What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Quacks and quackery
ISBN : 0719019036

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Health for Sale by Roy Porter Pdf

Author : Sylvia A. Pamboukian
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821444061

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Doctoring the Novel by Sylvia A. Pamboukian Pdf

If nineteenth-century Britain witnessed the rise of medical professionalism, it also witnessed rampant quackery. It is tempting to categorize historical practices as either orthodox or quack, but what did these terms really signify in medical and public circles at the time? How did they develop and evolve? What do they tell us about actual medical practices? Doctoring the Novel explores the ways in which language constructs and stabilizes these slippery terms by examining medical quackery and orthodoxy in works such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Charles Dickens’s Bleak House and Little Dorrit, Charlotte Brontë’s Villette, Wilkie Collins’s Armadale, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Stark Munro Letters. Contextualized in both medical and popular publishing, literary analysis reveals that even supposedly medico-scientific concepts such as orthodoxy and quackery evolve not in elite laboratories and bourgeois medical societies but in the rough-and-tumble of the public sphere, a view that acknowledges the considerable, and often underrated, influence of language on medical practices.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCLA:31158001793404

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Nostrums and Quackery by Anonim Pdf

Author : Dr. Steven Novella
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 505 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781538760512

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The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe by Dr. Steven Novella Pdf

An all-encompassing guide to skeptical thinking from podcast host and academic neurologist at Yale University School of Medicine Steven Novella and his SGU co-hosts, which Richard Wiseman calls "the perfect primer for anyone who wants to separate fact from fiction." It is intimidating to realize that we live in a world overflowing with misinformation, bias, myths, deception, and flawed knowledge. There really are no ultimate authority figures-no one has the secret, and there is no place to look up the definitive answers to our questions (not even Google). Luckily, The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe is your map through this maze of modern life. Here Dr. Steven Novella-along with Bob Novella, Cara Santa Maria, Jay Novella, and Evan Bernstein-will explain the tenets of skeptical thinking and debunk some of the biggest scientific myths, fallacies, and conspiracy theories-from anti-vaccines to homeopathy, UFO sightings to N- rays. You'll learn the difference between science and pseudoscience, essential critical thinking skills, ways to discuss conspiracy theories with that crazy co- worker of yours, and how to combat sloppy reasoning, bad arguments, and superstitious thinking. So are you ready to join them on an epic scientific quest, one that has taken us from huddling in dark caves to setting foot on the moon? (Yes, we really did that.) DON'T PANIC! With The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe, we can do this together. "Thorough, informative, and enlightening, The Skeptic's Guide to the Universe inoculates you against the frailties and shortcomings of human cognition. If this book does not become required reading for us all, we may well see modern civilization unravel before our eyes." -- Neil deGrasse Tyson "In this age of real and fake information, your ability to reason, to think in scientifically skeptical fashion, is the most important skill you can have. Read The Skeptics' Guide Universe; get better at reasoning. And if this claim about the importance of reason is wrong, The Skeptics' Guide will help you figure that out, too." -- Bill Nye

Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Quacks and quackery
ISBN : OSU:32435079838371

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The Golden Age of Quackery by Stewart H. Holbrook Pdf

Author : Eric W. Boyle
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-09
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9798216134657

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Quack Medicine by Eric W. Boyle Pdf

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 : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Government publications
ISBN : UCR:31210021614316

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Quackery by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care Pdf

Author : Stephen Barrett,William T. Jarvis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Consumer protection
ISBN : UOM:39015033255996

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The Health Robbers by Stephen Barrett,William T. Jarvis Pdf

And it answers such questions as: "Are 'organic' foods worth their extra cost?" "Can acupuncture cure anything?" "Will vitamin B[subscript 12] shots pep me up?" "Can diet cure arthritis?" "Will spinal adjustments help my health?" "Will amino acids 'pump up' my muscles?" "Where can reliable information be obtained?" and "What's the best way to get good medical care?" Even if the answers to some of these questions seem obvious, the details in this volume, written in an informative, highly readable, and easy-to-understand style, will astound you. Quackery often leads to harm because it turns ill people away from legitimate and trusted therapeutic procedures. However, its heaviest toll is in financial loss not only to those who pay directly, but to everyone who pays for bogus treatments through taxes, insurance premiums, and other ways that are less obvious.

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1342 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : UCBK:C109104756

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Health Frauds and Quackery by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Frauds and Misrepresentations Affecting the Elderly Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : MINN:31951D035483197

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Health Frauds and Quackery by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : James Harvey Young
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400862917

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American Health Quackery by James Harvey Young Pdf

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 : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Aging
ISBN : UCR:31210021614308

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Quackery, a $10 Billion Scandal by United States. Congress. House. Select Committee on Aging. Subcommittee on Health and Long-Term Care Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Fraud
ISBN : PURD:32754081237418

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Health Frauds and Quackery: March 9, 1964. pp. 163-257 by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging Pdf

Author : Roy Porter
Publisher : Tempus Publishing, Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Medicine
ISBN : 0752425900

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Quacks by Roy Porter Pdf

This illustrated history of quack doctors in their heyday of the 17th and 18th centuries looks at the various treatments and diagnostic methods used.