Description: Quack Medicine : A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America, Hardcover by Boyle, Eric W., ISBN 031338567X, ISBN-13 9780313385674, Brand New, Free shipping in the US 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, th 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." Previously unpublished images from medical almanacs and drug advertisements sent directly to doctors Images of materials used by "quackbusters" in their public educational campaigns, including posters used by the AMA and anti-quackery pamphlets produced by governmental agencies
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Book Title: Quack Medicine : A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth
Number of Pages: 264 Pages
Publication Name: Quack Medicine : a History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Item Height: 0.6 in
Subject: Ethics, Health Care Issues, History
Publication Year: 2013
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 20 Oz
Author: Eric W. Boyle
Item Length: 9.2 in
Subject Area: Health & Fitness, Medical
Series: Healing Society: Disease, Medicine, and History Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Hardcover
