American Health Quackery: Collected Essays of James Harvey Young

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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 an

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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."--Choice