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a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America

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An edition of Quack medicine (2013)

Quack medicine

a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America

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This book "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."--Provided by publisher.

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Praeger
Language
English
Pages
239

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Subjects

Quacks and quackery, History, Drug Industry, Fraud, Drug Legislation, Quackery, Kurpfuscherei, Government Regulation, History, 20th Century

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United States

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Quack Medicine: a History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
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Quack medicine: a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America
2013, Praeger
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Quackery unmasked
Rationalizing and regulating the therapeutic marketplace
Marketing medicines in an age of reform
Propaganda for reform
A new deal for quackery
Redefining quackery in the age of wonder drugs
Reviving the anti-quackery crusade in the 1950s and 1960s
Redefining quackery in the closing decades of the twentieth century.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [219]-229) and index.

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Santa Barbara, CA
Series
Healing society : disease, medicine, and history, Healing society--disease, medicine, and history
Other Titles
Beware the cancer quack

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
615.8/56
Library of Congress
R730 .B69 2013, R730.B69 2012

The Physical Object

Pagination
xxii, 239 p.
Number of pages
239

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27149898M
Internet Archive
quackmedicinehis0000boyl
ISBN 10
031338567X
ISBN 13
9780313385674
LCCN
2012028059
OCLC/WorldCat
768800281

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