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" The Medical Messiahs "
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880114
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Young, James Harvey.
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The Medical Messiahs
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| Edition Statement
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Expanded pbk. ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton :: Princeton University Press,, 2015.
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Princeton Legacy Library
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1 online resource (520 pages)
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| ISBN
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0691645310
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: 1400868696
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: 9780691645315
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: 9781400868698
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Preface ; Acknowledgments ; 1. Brane-Fude; 2. The Lawless Centuries; 3. A Decade of Enforcement; 4. Fraud in the Mails; 5. B. 6. ""Truth in Advertising""; 7. The New Muckrakers; 8. The New Deal and the New Laws; 9. In Pursuit of the Diminishing Promise; 10. Two Gentlemen from Indiana; 11. The Gadget Boom; 12. The Chemotherapeutic Revolution; 13. Mail-Order ""Health""; 14. Proprietary Advertising and the Wheeler-Lea Act; 15. Medicine Show Impresario; 16. ""You Are What You Eat""; 17. ""The Most Heartless""; 18. Anti-Quackery, Inc; 19. Turmoil on the Drug Scene.
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20. The Perennial PronenessAfterword; A Note on the Sources; Index.
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Review: ""The Medical Messiahs is an example of historical writing at its best-scholarly, perceptive, and exceedingly readable. Despite his objectivity, Young's dry humor shines through and illuminates his entire book.""--John Duffy, Journal of Southern History ""This book is written in tight, graceful prose that reflects thought rather than substitutes for it. Done with a sure feel for the larger political, social, and economic background, it demonstrates that historians who would make socially relevant contributions need only adhere to the best canons of their art.""-Oscar E. Anderson, Jr.
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Quacks and quackery-- United States.
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Americas
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Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
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Geographic Locations
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Geographicals
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History.
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Humanities.
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Quackery-- history.
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Quackery.
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Social Problems.
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Social Sciences.
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Sociology.
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Quacks and quackery.
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North America.
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United States.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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362.10973
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R730 .Y384 2015
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