Quack Medicine
by Eric W. Boyle.
Bok Engelsk 2013 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | S.l. : : ABC-CLIO, , 2013.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (232 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph. - 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 "e;quack medicine."e;. - Electronic reproduction.
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| Emner | Quacks and quackery - History - United States
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena Crime Criminology Vis mer... Drug Industry
Fraud Government Regulation Health Care Health Care Economics and Organizations History History, 20th Century History, Modern 1601- Humanities Industry Legislation as Topic Legislation, Drug Medicine Quackery Social Control, Formal Social Problems Social Sciences Sociology Technology, Industry, Agriculture Technology, Industry, and Agriculture Health & Biological Sciences Medical Professional Practice |
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| ISBN | 9780313385674
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