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American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young
James Harvey Young
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Hardback. Series: Princeton Legacy Library. Num Pages: 312 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBEY; 2AB; 3JJ; 3JM; DNF; HBJK; HBTB; MBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 599.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Series
Princeton Legacy Library
Condition
New
Weight
599g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691630304
SKU
V9780691630304
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Reviews for American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young
One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1993 This wonderful book contains collected essays of America's foremost historian of the patent medicine and health quackery industries... These essays demonstrate Young's excellent scholarship as well as his marvelous sense of humor and his witty use of the language... A fitting testimony to the excellent research and writing of the author. ... Read more