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Quack medicine : a history of combating health fraud in twentieth-century America

Boyle, Eric W. (author.).

Summary: 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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  • ISBN: 9780313385674 (hardcopy : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 031338567X (hardcopy : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 9780313385681 (e-book)
  • ISBN: 0313385688 (e-book)
  • Physical Description: print
    xxii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2013]

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-229) and index.
Formatted Contents Note: 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.

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Quack Medicine : A History of Combating Health Fraud in Twentieth-Century America
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

SectionSection DescriptionPage Number
Series Forewordp. ix
Acknowledgmentsp. xi
Abbreviationsp. xiii
Introductionp. xv
Chapter 1Quackery Unmaskedp. 1
Chapter 2Rationalizing and Regulating the Therapeutic Marketplacep. 17
Chapter 3Marketing Medicines in an Age of Reformp. 39
Chapter 4Propaganda for Reformp. 61
Chapter 5A New Deal for Quackeryp. 91
Chapter 6Redefining Quackery in the Age of Wonder Drugsp. 111
Chapter 7Reviving the Antiquackery Crusade in the 1950s and 1960sp. 127
Chapter 8Redefining Quackery in the Closing Decades of the Twentieth Centuryp. 151
Notesp. 179
Selected Bibliographyp. 219
Indexp. 231
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