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Author : Stewart H. Holbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Quackery written by Stewart H. Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Lydia Kang
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1523501855
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (235 download)
Download or read book Quackery written by Lydia Kang and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What won’t we try in our quest for perfect health, beauty, and the fountain of youth? Well, just imagine a time when doctors prescribed morphine for crying infants. When liquefied gold was touted as immortality in a glass. And when strychnine—yes, that strychnine, the one used in rat poison—was dosed like Viagra. Looking back with fascination, horror, and not a little dash of dark, knowing humor, Quackery recounts the lively, at times unbelievable, history of medical misfires and malpractices. Ranging from the merely weird to the outright dangerous, here are dozens of outlandish, morbidly hilarious “treatments”—conceived by doctors and scientists, by spiritualists and snake oil salesmen (yes, they literally tried to sell snake oil)—that were predicated on a range of cluelessness, trial and error, and straight-up scams. With vintage illustrations, photographs, and advertisements throughout, Quackery seamlessly combines macabre humor with science and storytelling to reveal an important and disturbing side of the ever-evolving field of medicine.
Author : Pope Brock
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0307409651
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)
Download or read book Charlatan written by Pope Brock and published by Crown. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiration for the 2016 Sundance Film Festival documentary, NUTS!. “An extraordinary saga of the most dangerous quack of all time...entrancing” –USA Today In 1917, John R. Brinkley–America’s most brazen con man–introduced an outlandish surgical method for restoring fading male virility. It was all nonsense, but thousands of eager customers quickly made “Dr.” Brinkley one of America’s richest men–and a national celebrity. The great quack buster Morris Fishbein vowed to put the country’ s “most daring and dangerous” charlatan out of business, yet each effort seemed only to spur Brinkley to new heights of ingenuity, and the worlds of advertising, broadcasting, and politics soon proved to be equally fertile grounds for his potent brand of flimflam. Culminating in a decisive courtroom confrontation, Charlatan is a marvelous portrait of a boundlessly audacious rogue on the loose in an America ripe for the bamboozling.
Author : Stewart Hall Holbrook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758188854
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (888 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Quackery written by Stewart Hall Holbrook and published by . This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Cincinnati Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1997-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cincinnati Magazine taps into the DNA of the city, exploring shopping, dining, living, and culture and giving readers a ringside seat on the issues shaping the region.
Author : Tony Robertson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781784554545
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (545 download)
Download or read book Quackery written by Tony Robertson and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Tony Robertson exposes the myth that is the efficacy of alternative medicine. Why does the NHS include homeopathy in its prescribable drugs? Why are people allowed to go to malarial countries with the only protection advised by homeopaths being salt tablets? People die, people are not cured, no verifiable efficacy of alternative medicine is produced, and yet homeopathic 'cures' across the range of ailments and promoted by notable figures such as Prince Charles, continue to be sold.In Quackery, The 20 Million Dollar Duck, Tony Robertson examines the claims of alternative therapies such as acupuncture: can it really stop smoking addiction, enable surgery to be carried out without anaesthetic, cure hearing loss ...' Unsurprisingly data for 'miracle' cures and therapies is thin on the ground. For a full exposé of the dangers of 'quackery' this book is a must.
Author : S. Frederick Starr
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691165858
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Lost Enlightenment written by S. Frederick Starr and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The forgotten story of Central Asia's enlightenment—its rise, fall, and enduring legacy In this sweeping and richly illustrated history, S. Frederick Starr tells the fascinating but largely unknown story of Central Asia's medieval enlightenment through the eventful lives and astonishing accomplishments of its greatest minds—remarkable figures who built a bridge to the modern world. Because nearly all of these figures wrote in Arabic, they were long assumed to have been Arabs. In fact, they were from Central Asia—drawn from the Persianate and Turkic peoples of a region that today extends from Kazakhstan southward through Afghanistan, and from the easternmost province of Iran through Xinjiang, China. Lost Enlightenment recounts how, between the years 800 and 1200, Central Asia led the world in trade and economic development, the size and sophistication of its cities, the refinement of its arts, and, above all, in the advancement of knowledge in many fields. Central Asians achieved signal breakthroughs in astronomy, mathematics, geology, medicine, chemistry, music, social science, philosophy, and theology, among other subjects. They gave algebra its name, calculated the earth's diameter with unprecedented precision, wrote the books that later defined European medicine, and penned some of the world's greatest poetry. One scholar, working in Afghanistan, even predicted the existence of North and South America—five centuries before Columbus. Rarely in history has a more impressive group of polymaths appeared at one place and time. No wonder that their writings influenced European culture from the time of St. Thomas Aquinas down to the scientific revolution, and had a similarly deep impact in India and much of Asia. Lost Enlightenment chronicles this forgotten age of achievement, seeks to explain its rise, and explores the competing theories about the cause of its eventual demise. Informed by the latest scholarship yet written in a lively and accessible style, this is a book that will surprise general readers and specialists alike.
Author : Norman Wahl
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781506904696
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book The Golden Age of Orthodontics written by Norman Wahl and published by . This book was released on 2017-09 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The is the only book that describes the decline of the golden age of orthodontics -- how a group of affluent professionals came face-to-face with threats to their status quo, how the group belatedly dealt with them, and how these forces left an indelible mark. Although the decline had been overcome by the late 20th century, today's practitioner must now cope with new challenges. Author_Bio: A native of Chicago and a West Point graduate, Norman Wahl was commissioned in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps in 1946. After 3 years of service, he worked in the film studios, later producing two documentary films on the history of Los Angeles. He finally decided on a career in dentistry, specializing in orthodontics. In addition to a BS degree from the US Military Academy, Dr Wahl has a DDS from the University of Illinois College of Dentistry, an MS in orthodontics from Northwestern University, and an MA in history from California State University at Northridge. He has written for the military and lay presses as well as for dental publications, mostly on orthodontic history. He is the author of Oral Signs and Symptoms, Wahl's Oral Histories, Who Was Who in Orthodontics with a Selected Bibliography of Orthodontic History, and articles in the American Journal of Orthodontics and Dentofacial Orthopedics (including the 16-chapter series, "Orthodontics in 3 Millennia"), the Angle Orthodontist, the Journal of Clinical Orthodontics, Dental Economics, and the Pacific Coast Society of Orthodontists Bulletin. He has also taught orthodontic history at the UCLA College of Dentistry. Dr Wahl lives with his wife, Betty, in Sequim, Washington, and divides his time between writing, freelance copyediting, and playing the piano for local retirement homes. Golden Age is an outgrowth of his master's thesis (CSUN, 1997). Having started his practice in 1963, he considers himself an eyewitness to the decline. Keywords: Orthodontics, Orthodontists, Golden Age, History, Decline, Dentists, Dentistry, Braces, Baby Boom, How-To
Author : Samuel Hopkins Adams
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Great American Fraud written by Samuel Hopkins Adams and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 1907 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the introductory article to a series which will contain a full explanation and exposure of patent-medicine methods, and the harm done to the public by this industry, founded mainly on fraud and poison. Results of the publicity given to these methods can already be seen in the steps recently taken by the National Government, some State Governments and a few of the more reputable newspapers. The object of the series is to make the situation so familiar and thoroughly understood that there will be a speedy end to the worst aspects of the evil.
Author : Jeffrey Womack
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987430
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)
Download or read book Radiation Evangelists written by Jeffrey Womack and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2020-03-17 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radiation Evangelists explores X-ray and radium therapy in the United States and Great Britain during a crucial period of its development, from 1896 to 1925. It focuses on the pioneering work of early advocates in the field, the “radiation evangelists” who, motivated by their faith in a new technology, trust in new energy sources, and hope for future breakthroughs, turned a blind eye to the dangers of radiation exposure. Although ionizing radiation effectively treated diseases like skin infections and cancers, radiation therapists—who did not need a medical education to develop or administer procedures or sell tonics containing radium—operated in a space of uncertainty about exactly how radiation worked or would affect human bodies. And yet radium, once a specialized medical treatment, would eventually become a consumer health product associated with the antibacterial properties of sunlight. This book raises important questions about medical experimentation and the so-called Golden Rule of medical ethics, issues of safety and professional identity, and the temptation of a powerful therapeutic tool that also posed significant risks in its formative years. In this cautionary tale of technological medical progress, Jeffrey Womack reveals how practitioners and their patients accepted uncertainty as a condition of their therapy in an attempt to alleviate human suffering
Author : Peter V. Taberner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 146846700X
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (684 download)
Download or read book Aphrodisiacs written by Peter V. Taberner and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The planning and writing of this book has taken rather longer than I had originally intended; what began as a modest literary project for two second-year medical students has expanded over eight years to become a complete book. The subject matter lent itself all too easily to a sen sationalist approach yet, on the other hand, a strictly scientific approach would probably have resulted in a dull dry text of little interest to the general reader. I have therefore attempted to bridge the gap and make the book intelligible and entertaining to the non-special ist, but at the same time ensuring that it is factually correct and adequately researched for the scientist or clinician. I have always been impressed by Sir J .G. Frazer's introduction to his classic book The Golden Bough in which he apologizes for the fact that an article originally intended merely to explain the rules of succession to the priesthood of Diana at Aricia had expanded, over a period of thirty years, to twelve volumes. The present work cannot pretend to such heady levels of academic excellence.
Author : Mark Pendergrast
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780465054688
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (546 download)
Download or read book For God, Country, and Coca-Cola written by Mark Pendergrast and published by . This book was released on 2000-03-17 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of the Coca-Cola soft drink company.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Health Frauds and Quackery: March 10, 1964. pp. 259-346 written by United States. Congress. Senate. Special Committee on Aging and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ben Goldacre
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429967099
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Bad Science written by Ben Goldacre and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered how one day the media can assert that alcohol is bad for us and the next unashamedly run a story touting the benefits of daily alcohol consumption? Or how a drug that is pulled off the market for causing heart attacks ever got approved in the first place? How can average readers, who aren't medical doctors or Ph.D.s in biochemistry, tell what they should be paying attention to and what's, well, just more bullshit? Ben Goldacre has made a point of exposing quack doctors and nutritionists, bogus credentialing programs, and biased scientific studies. He has also taken the media to task for its willingness to throw facts and proof out the window. But he's not here just to tell you what's wrong. Goldacre is here to teach you how to evaluate placebo effects, double-blind studies, and sample sizes, so that you can recognize bad science when you see it. You're about to feel a whole lot better.
Author : Jeremy Agnew
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476645264
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book The Electric Corset and Other Victorian Miracles written by Jeremy Agnew and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-11-03 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the Victorian and Edwardian eras, various health movements emerged in the transition to the modern age of scientific medicine. Strange medical devices and quack cures were pushed, often using crude remedies based on simplistic beliefs and the placebo effect. Currently, some of these treatments appear absurd, even cruel. Because some were properly used as appropriate therapies, it is difficult to label them altogether as bogus. This book takes a thorough look at unconventional medical gadgets, as well as the strange devices and therapies used by both fringe and legitimate healers, and places them in the perspective of modern medicine. The author argues that quackery should not be defined by the ineffectiveness of a therapy, but rather be based on the fraudulent intent of the people who pushed dishonest and deceptive remedies.
Author : Roger Cooter
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349196061
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Studies In The History Of Alternative Medicine written by Roger Cooter and published by Springer. This book was released on 1988-11-24 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays focused largely on the 19th century when alternative medicine as opposed to orthodox medicine was not accepted as "professional". Historians in this book explore the dissent which arose in various local and national contexts.
Author : Jan van der Putten
Publisher : NUS Press
ISBN 13 : 9789971694548
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (945 download)
Download or read book Lost Times and Untold Tales from the Malay World written by Jan van der Putten and published by NUS Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together a group of international scholars, inspired by the scholarly perspective of Australian philologist Ian Proudfoot, who look at calendars and time, royal myths, colonial expeditions, printing, propaganda, theater, art, Islamic manuscripts, and many more aspects of Malayan history.
